bob wright, former chair of nbc universal joining us. >>> time for a cnbc newspaper u.'s get over to contessa brewer. >> here's what's happening right now. president trump engaged 83-year-old utah senator orrin hatch to run for an eighth term in office. the president toured a church of jesus christ of latter day saints charity house in salt lake city and side stepped questions of whether he was blocking mitt romney from running. >> mr. president, are you encouraging senator hatch to run for re-election? >> yes >> mr. president, are you sending a message to mitt romney >> he's a good man >>> the supreme court is taking up a case that could make sports betting widely available new jersey's challenging a federal law that bars states from authorizing sports gambling if the supreme court strikes down that law, 32 states would likely offer sports gambling, legally, within five years, according to one report. >>> netflix has reached an agreement to resume production of "house of cards" season six the show's final season in 2018 production was suspended in october following sex

the man to talk to that subject is bob wright, he's a former chair and ceo of nbc universal. is man knows what he's talking about. you really do know what your talking about in this area, bob, even though you fail today hire me all of those years ago, you really know what you're talking about. seems to me that big tech, they are the ones with the money, they are the ones that are buying big media, that's pretty much what's happening, isn't it? >> big media itself is getting bigger because disney is going to be a substantially larger company after the acquisition of the 20th century fox assets and a lot of the sports and protecting espn, i think it's very shrewd. there won't be competitors for espn for the next 20 years as a result of this and they are taking down tremendous amount of library material which will all be available on their various efforts to stream whether it's through hulu or themselves. that's a big deal and the tech people are going get the benefit, stuart, of a lot of people are going to be leaving in the consolidation on a lot of producers, directors, so the

ask why bob mueller has 17 attorneys that are on this investigation, a majority of which donated to the clinton campaign? one actually worked in the -- >> this is a fox news alert. i'm kelly wrighton. you are looking live at live pictures right now from capitol hill. that is where the senate is wrapping up a vote on sweeping tax reform. from what we have seen, excuse me, i'm listening to it on my phone, i will turn it off. what we have seen it has passed 51-48. they have made a couple of changes from the bill passed earlier tuesday in the house. now that the senate bill has passed, it will be sent back to the house for a final vote before president trump can sign it into law. the sergeant of arms had to restore order several times in a senate gallery after protesters disrupted the vote with vigorous chance of "kill the bill" "you are wrong for doing this." democrats overall immunity against it. on the floor earlier today this vote was cast, senate minority leader chuck schumer wanted to say what it is, that's what this bill is. an absolute disgrace. he went on to add, "it is something dramatically opposite of what americans need. you want to help the middle class, give them a re