joining us to talk about it is bob wright bob, it's good to have you back, good morning >> thank you,ank you very much. >> you have talked many times about what a painful trade this has been for you and anyone who has been in the shares any reason to think tomorrow could bring an operational turn? >> i don't know that it's going to make a major announcement i think we have to pay a lot of attention to cash now. accounting is so complicated in terms of the new accounting procedures they are going to have to go through for contracts. spending too much time on accounting i think isn't going to be profitable spending time on cash is, i think, where we're going to have to look. there's cash outside the united states i don't believe they have made a determination when they are going to bring that back in, but it's certainly positive. they have to work that down on the debt they have $150 million of debt they have pension issues but that's probably more achievable right now, i think really the issue is getting cash flows and looking at the cash flows. because they are too thin right now. >>

years why jack didn't want to do an acquisition or what we need to do with cable, how we do it, bob wrightouse family, and bob miron who is a genius. and john malone. when i think about where people should be spending their time, you would like to get the right job, to think you were going to make some money, but i took a 50% pay cut to go to nbc because i thought i could hang out with the guys at the tea cart, and maybe someday i would get to be jack. a lot of the way i see the world , i still talk to jack all the time. i am hearing his voice, bob and donald ross voice, and john's voice. for that alone, i am one of the luckiest guys. host: it strikes me you are now running discovery, which appeals in the united states to a lot of the middle of the country. i hear the president is a fan of "shark week." i read that some place. david: i hope he is a fan of a lot of our stuff. host: you helmed msnbc and that channel is now a very different place. what do you think about the media landscape in terms of politics, because it has become much more polarized? david: the business changed. when we l

in that case, jack welch and bob wright were committed to try and take the broadcast business into cable around at that time, it was pretty unusual. it is important because the business you think you're going to launch that is going to work is never the business that works. the audience is always going to tell you what they get nourished by. that's what our business is about. that's what most businesses are about. when we launched with the oprah winfrey network, we had a dream, oprah and i, that it was going to be about living your best life. we looked strategically at the space and said we can do this. only went out with the content, super soul sunday work terrific, but a lot of the other stuff was the audiencend went away. it took us a lot of years. we started to listen, what do you like. that's what our business is about. we don't want everyone to watch. the oprah winfrey network now is the number one network for african-american women. we have broken our company in half. we have half the company that is about growing our channels, doing what we believe we can do as well or better tha

i think bob wright did an excellent job this morning talking about how uncomplicated is and the needaise cash tomorrow, you need to see stability. >> sleep number is missing on a number from a downgrade over raymond james. josh >> this is what we're doing now, we're investing in mattress stores? >> sure. >> is that what's popping right now, scott >> what? >> sleep number is trading at the same price it was trading this time in 2011, just as a little reference point and in the meantime, probably the most brutal category of selling requires a ton of advertising online a ton of advertising on television things like the laura ingraham show this is the thing you want to be invested in, knock yourself out. i have no interest >>> philip morris on pace, from its worst day from its spin. doc? >> the beat on -- the bottom line, the top line was a little light. shipments to europe is up on cigarettes a little bit. and piper is defending the stock four minutes ago down $16 i've got to like it around here, judge. i'll probably own it this time tomorrow >> let's talk apple, shares are down taiwan

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bob wright, one of the most successful guys running nbc, the newhouse family, bob miron, a genius. think about where people should be spending their time, yes, you would like to get the right job. yes, you would like to think you will make money, but i took a from a cut to go to nbc law firm. because maybe someday i was going to get to meet jack. a lot of the way i see the world, i still talk to jack all the time. i hear jack's voice. i'm hearing bob miron's voice .nd john's voice i one of the luckiest guys. david: it strikes me that you are now running discovery. president of the united states probably wouldn't object to. i understand he is a fan of shark week. you helped to create msnbc. a verys a channel in different place. what do you think about the media landscape in the united states? because it has become much more polarized. : when we launched msnbc, there was a group of us who said that we would launch the best news network in america and we will use the number one division in the world to do it. we had an amazing library and restructured a deal with microsoft to get them

wright and former political director for president george w. bush, matt schap. if you're a democrat, your talking points have been to let bobller do his job, with let the special counsel get to the bottom of it. why is the dnc preempting bob mueller and taking their own legal action here? >> the dnc wants some answers and the dnc wants to send a message to the russians, to anyone else in your world who may want to try to attack our democracy as the russians did the last election cycle. this is not the first time the democratic national committee has filed a lawsuit against a presidential campaign committee. it happened with the nixon crew during the watergate situation. and they have a real reason to. it was a trump campaign and wikileaks who essentially worked together to hack into the dnc for the result or trying to sway election. >> in that were to be the case, wouldn't bob mueller be able to investigate that and find that? this to you, matt. >> absolutely. this is the whole problem, the democrats do realize that this russia made up narrative is not working. and what i love about it pete. >> russia didn't hack into our e