network, bob johnson is here.hough, with altease and what do you think is going to happen >> it's happened before. i'm going to drop you and call all the subscribers and say they're dropping us. usually the cable operators carve out an increase and they go on to the next contract. at some point there's going to be a defining moment, they're just going to say no. if you drop it, just drop it and we'll move on. >> and you think this is the moment >> it could very well could be. they are -- they're small enough but not the largest that disney could really hold out if they really wanted to but on the other hand, at some point, some company is going to say we simply can't grow our business paying you more than our subscribers who are watching. so whether or not this will do it or not but the amount of money cable operators pay to carry basic cable program is going to decline over time. >> you heard it hear first, bob johnson, thank you very much. >> great having you here. >>> make sure you join us tomorrow, "squawk on

i don't have any beef with bob johnson or cathy hughes. i just told my story and i pray and hope that they change because there is enough for everybody. you worked there for years and years i think it could be more but i mentioned in the of book part-timers were paid part time in 1988. i had a terrible payroll system i would always double the pay the has that magic of that four hour shift paid $40. where do you want to work? [laughter] n day play the same games. but that's scary thing is 29 years later some people are still scared -- are still pay $10 an hour to beyond air. dead serious. not trying to change people's champions or food is named after somebody. [laughter] that is cool but does know that if that came off the back of somebody else. that's all i'm saying. i love you misused. [laughter] >> you talk a lot about the fcc and then things start to change invalidated not allow with decency. >> the paris television council is probably the largest watched our organization that is useless in terms of enforcement. there is no level of car

there been movie channel that bob johnson started he they reached out and they were like we want this on our platform let's do it well cross says does lawrence learn how to process his emotions in a healthy way is the go or is he going to keep self destructing. i hope he learns to i think that's part of the journey of these characters and part of the journey and you know part of the world that isas has created with these people and is showing us is that they are messy and we are messy like as humans that's just part of life and growth happens when you know you get your heart broken or growth happens when you realize that you're you know in a threesome you shouldn't be and growth happens when you realize that works not going the way you expected it to go so i hope he he he learns how to use his words and kind of face the stuff that's out to get knocked down you don't have to the plume game of if you only know just sort of some questions i chip what's a guilty pleasure. clause on t.n.t. niecy nash person you trade places with for a day president obama secret talent oh man. i remodel hou

. >> you heard it hear first, bob johnson, thank you very much. >> great having you here. >>> make sure you join us tomorrow, "squawk on the street" is coming up right now. ♪ >>> good mondays morning the new york stock exchange final week of q3 is upon us. a torrent of news from tax reform and health care to the president's battle with the nfl, facebook, german elections, puerto rico's difficult recovery. check out oil. it is not settled above 51 since may 24th. road map begins. stocks still on the high despite hiccups. >> donald trump blast the nfl. it's having huge ripple effects and could have a large corporate impact. facebook settling a lawsuit with investors but its trouble far from over. revelations about what the company did and did not know when it comes to russian interference in the u.s. election. >>> futures are moving lower have a positive week for stocks despite the dow being in the midst of a two session losing streak. global markets reacting to developments out of germany. merkel wins. the far right party will enter parliament for the first time, one of the cofounders sa

woody johnson, bob kraft. trump was reading letters from tom brady and bill belichick.re so the nba, the nfl is a sport where a lot of players are supportive of president trump and the fact that so many owners are donating to trump, the fact that goodell would feel the ability to release such a comment really does say something about what trump said last night. >> you also said the president disinviting nba star steph curry to the white house after the warriors guard said he'd be voting no for a traditional championship visit by the team. curry says their absence will form a protest against the president along the lines of the ways to express what you were talking about. why pick on the athletes? is there some element of distraction, maybe deflect from all this talk about health care which is not going to well for the republicans? >> i go back and forth on this. is this some genius scheme to distract us from the issues or him lashing out because his ego is bruised? it's probably a little of column and column b. he doesn't want us thinking about his policy failures but h

. >> it's a tradition, bob straus withining johnson's campaign in 19 skating, he had ho chi minh on the phone all the time. >> these were pro active e-mails, reaching out, saying, hay, if you want to know what's going on, we'll accommodate you, why would you do such a thing? that's what bob mueller will be interested in. >> who in the world would think there was collusion between the trump campaign and russia if you are saying, hey, you want to get sla vlad or the phone. >> there is no information that briefings took place and a spokes woman for deripaska dismissed it as a culting scheming -- consulting scheming. >> he was at the campaign at the xhig. so not a consultant but actually chairman of presidential campaign. >> all right. let's get to richmond, virginia. "new york times" reporter michael schmidt who broke the mueller probe story and staff where irfor the washington post carol lennoc who had bilines for the trump investigations on her paper. >> let's start with paul manafort. just a consultant, just a lonely consultant, this is just scheming, so they say. tell us what in the wo

johnson. and richard, the words bob kerrey was using about this kind of use of the flag for divisiveness, politicalveness, you could take some of those lines and they sound perfectly appropriate to what we're watching today. >> they absolutely do. that's exactly what trump is trying to do. this players protest is not about the flag. it's not about the an them. it's about anthony lamar smith who was killed by a st. louis police officer who said we're going to kill this guy before he then killed this guy. and just this month was acquitted in his trial. it's about tamir rice. it's about mike brown. it's the repeated incidents of black people being murdered by law enforcement in america with impunity. and i'm glad they're doing it. >> richard, as an afghanistan veteran, what is your reaction to what the president says when he says they fought for our flag. they fought for our national anthem. >> i didn't fight for any flag or anthem. i don't know anybody who did fight for a flag or anthem. the guys i went to war, they fought for the guys to their left and right. not for any piece of cloth. that's what

johnson, but for the soldiers who were fighting. that drove him crazy while other performers like bob hope were going over there to there is a major network making money off of it, nothing wrong with that. they did a good service. so he is a good guy. but heston went right to the front, he worked his way to the front and he met with only soldiers, no performing, no pr people. he felt that it was focused on these soldiers and that point the last shred of his labor. the liberal leaning paper torn out and he felt that if it didn't support the men who were fighting for your country, fighting for your free time, fr, there's something wrong with it. and of course, the countercultural movement was all leftist liberal kids who were anti-vietnam in anti-americanism i remember all this because i lived through it. it was to go into a defense of whathe defense ofwhat he felt w. again remember his war was delineated between right and wrong, evil hero. the people that he thought were the heroes were "-begin-double-quote as evil. the screen actors guild that was seen in the 40s less so today as a kind of liberal organization may be softly communist orga

johnson, but to the soldiers who were fighting. that drove heston crazy. while other many performerred like bob hope were going there and not really putting themselves in any danger, entertaining troops and bringing some women, showing some legs, this is why you fight and then selling the thing to a major network and making money off of it. there's nothing wrong with that. they did a good service. i'm not knocking bob hope. sacrificed a lot of his christmases and all of that. he's a good guy. but heston went right to the front, worked to the front. and he met with only soldiers. no performing, no pr people. he personally talked to about 400 men, took all their names, and their phone numbers, and promised when he got home he would call their wifes and loved ones, and he did. he came home and he called each and every one of them. at the same time when he came back, the fury that was going on in this country over vietnam, he felt was focused on these soldiers. at that point the last shred of his liberal leanings evaporated or were torn up. they were thrown out. he felt that if you didn't support t

bob menendez tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. on american history tv, photojournalist frank johnson who worked for united press international in the 1960's and for "the washington post" for 35 years. the interview is from the briscoe center for american history at the university of texas at austin. here is a preview. the minister of information decided no one was going to go. well, it turned out they knew charlie was in the room and all the reporters said, this m,an's one of the only survivors. please let him go up there along with a photographer, still photographer. theso, we all drew straws, photographers in the room, and i drew the short straw. so charlie and i flew from georgetown up to port -- we get off the airplane and there is a huey helicopter sitting on the side. we ran to the chopper. there was a soldier that jumped into the chopper and i jumped into what was the gunner seat on the side. the door was open. as we took off, we took off fairly well. off, we were maybe 500 feet off the ground. and flew into over the compound and as we started to approach the compound, we saw

johnsonn >> catherine johnson is the 99-year-old math mathematician who calculated the trajectoryies to get john glenn to orbit the a planet.d she was a hidden figure. her father, bob lee, worked at nasa with me. it is like a family. she celebrated her 99th birthday, white sulfur springs. no matter what you can do to with grit and perseverance you can do anything you put your mind to. >> aubrey, bronx, new york. yes. [inaudible] >> i apologize. we'll have to hang up there. i don't think either of us could understand, and i apologize, aubry for that. but let's hear from kevin in princeton, new jersey. we are listen. you're on with astronaut and author leland melvin. >> caller: thank you for taking my call, mr. melvin. question, how soon might a young person begin training or academically for, a mission in space? and exactly, not exactly, what you relatively speaking, how much mathematics does that program entail? >> so training to become an astronaut starts i think, i think training to be a soon activity or an engineer starts at a very early age. i started building things with my hand when i was in middle school. a i think the main thing about the training is to get

johnson, jpmorgan, ge, and amazon. and holding a basket of those stocks has produced a 22% return this year. that's pretty impressive. i'm bob pisani at the new york stock exchange. >>> standard & poor's has cut china's credit rating for the first time since 1999. the rating agency is citing risks from soaring debt in that country. analysts say the downgrade highlights challenges faced by communist leaders as they cope with slowing economic growth. >>> president trump announced new sanctions on north korea and said china, north korea's biggest trading partner, has ordered its banks to stop doing business with pyongyang. >> china. their central bank has told their other banks, that's a massive banking system, to immediately stop doing business with north korea. this just happened, just in addition to everything else, what we will do is identify new industries, including textiles, fishing, information technology, and manufacturing, that the treasury department can target with strong sanctions. >> the treasury secretary today said the u.s. plans to call on russia to do more as well on the north korean situation. >>> in mexico c

bob. >>> no school for thousands in montgomery county. teachers at methacton school district are on strike. our lauren johnson is joining us from methacton high. teachers will be out there in a short while on the picket lines, is that right? >> reporter: that is right, thomas 7:00 points and parents are saying it is summer break all over again because doors to the schoolhouse are closed this morning. the routine and pattern of back to school has been, broken after talks broken down between district and union. now teachers represented by the union will show up here, this morning to strike at 7:30 school board president believes that the salary issue is resolved but he says sticking point at this point is health care, rising costs, means teachers are demanding better coverage but the president, admits it is a tough balancing act because methacton district has a small commercial tax base leading it primarily funded by residential. not even two weeks into class parents are left looking for ways to still work and find something for their kid to do while the battle of the budget continues. >> some people are scramb

like to welcome bob, my health care expert bob, it's always great to have you as i talked about in the tease, we have senators graham, cassidy, heller, johnson, and santorum now you can add to that list bernie sanders and why bernie? because none of the above, obviously, have any faith in the current direction in obamacare, all have plans, the first five have a plan presented yesterday, bernie sanders a little different plan why don't you tell us your thoughts on both plans and can we actually see walking dead with respect to legislation to repeal and/or replace? maybe not necessarily in the same calendar month, obamacare >> well, the chances of any action on health care, any big action on health care, are about zero, rick, either on the side of the republicans, the senators you've just mentioned, or bernie sanders and a number of other democratic senators, who yesterday said they are supporting a single payer canadian style plan. what's ironic about all of this, i think, is you have the most conservative republicans saying we've got to repeal, replace obamacare because it's not working. and now you've got a number of democratic senators, le

bob kelly, good morning. >> good morning. what do you mean kid are not going to school. >> methacton they are not. lauren johnsonill tell us about in a second. >> ahh. >> that is what the parents are saying. >> kid not so much. they will love it. lets check that forecast, sue. >> it is seven out of 10. not bad. but we will see quite a few cloud. we have a lot to keep an eye on in the tropics. tropical depression lee, hurricane maria gaining strength and taking similar path to irma and hurricane jose just off our shores you can see cloud and rain bands starting to approach and get closer. we are not seeing any rain from that storm at the moment but with all of the moisture in the air we are seeing fog in lancaster county, up in the mountains, pocono mountains and little bit around lehigh valley. 69 degrees right now. sunrise 6:45. we should be 78 or 79 with mostly cloudy skies, forecast and latest from the tropics, coming up bob kelly good morning, everybody. monday, 4:31. back to work and school. live look at freeway headlights coming in toward philadelphia the work crew is still wrapped in the process of wrappi

holman, bob holman and is writing down whatd nixon is telling him to nixon as saying keep inertia now working on the south vietnamese. anyway we can monkeywrench johnson's initiative. >> monkeywrench meant? >> throw a monkey wrench into the gears and stop it. a rainy day like today, down at the beach and a potted jigsaw puzzle because there's nothing else to do and you put thes puzzle pieces together in aat stuff comes out and you go away, but your brother-in-law comes up behind you and starts putting a few pieces of the puzzle together and eventually gets assembled. that was my little piece of the puzzle and i was glad to contribute. >> a crucial piece it was. one thing that strikes me has been the extraordinary way you manage to remain dispassionate and yet haven't edge and seek involvement in what's going on. he did not live all of this history, and >> many of us have lived much of it. for a generation, i've read the book feeling as though i was reliving my life. did you feel that way at all?wa did you feel personally involved in the larger events? >> i was in college duringllege watergate, so i wasn't in college at the time of the great vietnam prot

bob kelly. 6:02. lets get to north philadelphia one man dead following a triple shooting. >> two others are in the hospital. we will get to lauren johnson because it is still an active scene, lauren. >> crime scene investigators wrapped up their investigation out here but alarm clocks will be going on and off for school age children heading to school they will wake up to lots of circles on the ground here where there were shell casings on the sidewalk, bullets flying overnight here at eighth and perth street. just a lot of evidence markers on the side of this philadelphia housing authority building. it looks like shooter unloaded an entire clip before running to the other side and firing off more bullets. he hit two men one in the thigh and hip area another in the foot, third victim who was also hit but no one knew about him for about an hour because the man was lying helpless in the bushes, he died later at hahnemann hospital. powe living hearsay shooting stems from a verbal altercation yesterday involving young children and then adults became involved. >> we used to say word, more so then anything, and if anything we have fistfights b

johnson in 1968 was whether richard nixon had been directly involved.d as i'm going through this material that's been released from the nixon library, there are handwritten notes by the chief of staff by bob haldeman. he is writing down what nixon is telling him and he sang keep them working on the south vietnamese. anyway we can monkey wrench that initiative. >> and that meant. >> throw monkeywrench into the gears and stop it. does my little contribution to history. on a rainy day like todayel you're at the beach and you fill out a jigsaw puzzle andet there's nothing else to do and you start putting the puzzle pieces together and then the sun comes out and you go away, but your brother-in-law comes behind you and he starts putting a few pieces of the puzzle together and eventually gets assembled. was so that was my little piece of the puzzle. i was glad to contribute. >> and a crucial piece it is. >> one of the things thate strikes me about your book and has struck others as well has been the extraordinary way that you managed to remain passionate and yet have an edge on the involvement on what's going on. now, you did not live all of this history,. >> but many of us have lived much of i

pro golfers dustin johnson and jonathan vega will join us next. and later, senator bobighs in on the gop's attempt to overhaul taxes and health ayun st ted you're watching "squawk box" on cnbc >>> today's executive edge is lifting the veil off quantum investing, sparking a war for talent four out of the five biggest hedge funds are now primarily computer driven, yet it remain largely a black box for some of the most sophisticated investors. leslie joins us now from london. >> hey, melissa. that's right the purpose of this screen behind me is to demystify the quant strategy we're here at man group, which has been in quant for 30 years they've cultivated $40 billion in that strategy, and yet even the most sophisticated lps see this as a black box. the purpose of this screen is just to show a small subset of data that the computers are sifting through and trading by the millisecond. you can see the diversity of markets they're in futures as well as electronic slippage, which shows the cost they're incurring on trading i want to take you guys on to the trading floor. i use