>> now, bobby brown in his own words. ugged and uncensored about whitney houston. >> that was the first time i had actually saw her do drugs. >> pointing fingers about the death of bobbi kristina. >> it's not a mystery to me. i know exactly what happened to my daughter. if i could get those two days back. >> this is where it all starts. >> tonight, the real story. >> does whitney always treat you this good? ♪ mr. telephone man >> the star who went from bubble gum pop to the bad boy who married the pop princess. >> we did it. >> between me and her, it was just -- it w so stan >> the money. people always are saying that you wanted whitney's money and then after that, that you wanted bobbi kris' money. the drugs. >> this ain't fair, man. >> are you clean? are you clean? and the infamous whitney moment no one can forget. >> we don't do crack. crack is whack. >> crack is whack. crack is whack-gate. there was no reason for her to be on television. >> with a best-selling tell-all book, he's telling all. >> don't judge me until yo

when i say bobby brown, who do you think of? >> the makeup artist. >> okay!i'm glad you answered that. >> i wasn't sure you were going go with makeup artist or singer. >> i would have gone with neither. i don't know either. >> wilf, i might have guessed that. we do have the makeup artist, bobby brown. the make up artist and e entrepreneur. she will be joining us today to talk to us about her new venture. she has a new book out. she has left her company, bobbi brown, but she has a flu company she's starting up. she will work with lord & taylor withstand-alone retail shops that show all of this she's chl. he's a great entrepreneur. >> also about the decline of department stores. >> is this the time to be going into retail when things are disintegrating everywhere you go. >> for some reason, no matter what i hear about the doom of department stores, the makeup counters are always busy. thank you. >> thanks, guys. >>> "squawk box" up in ten minutes time. >>> still to come on "worldwide exchange," we're setting you up for the trading day ahead. you'll hear more fr

makeup mogul bobbi brown is going deeper into department stores.s on set as the final hour of "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ >>> learn from the most powerful city in the world, new york, this is "squawk box." >>> good morning and welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc. we're live from the nasdaq marketsite i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin. the futures right now are up 14, even though ibm is down like a lot. down like eight or nine points. i haven't checked it recently. eight or nine points puts about 50, 60 points of downward pressure on the dow. yet still higher. s&p indicated up 7. dow up 14, nasdaq up 18. treasury yields up a little bit in recent sessions. they had been below 2.2. >> morgan stanley reporting earnings in sharp contrast with rival goldman sachs which reported yesterday. first quarter profit came in at $1 a share compared to estimates of 88 cents. revenue also beating forecasts. the ceo james gorman is calling it one of the firm's strongest quarters in recent years although he says the market enviro

from bobby brown's classic album, "don't be cruel," this is "my prerogative."♪ ♪ they say i'm crazy i really don't care that's my prerogative ♪ ♪ they say i'm nasty but i don't give a damn gettin' girls is how i live ♪ ♪ some ask me questions why am i so real but they don't understand me i really don't know ♪ ♪ the deal about a brother trying hard to make it right not long ago before i win this fight sing ♪ ♪ everybody's talking all this stuff about me why don't they just let me live ♪ ♪ i don't need permission make my own decisions that's my prerogative it's my prerogative ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's not fair. that's not fair. that's not fair. that's not fair. that's not fair. pitbull in the house. [ cheers and applause ] that's not fair. that's not fair. that's not fair right there. that's not fair. you didn't know you had special guest. okay, i'm going to up my game. you guys want to stand over there for a second. see what's up, pitbull. >> all right. he sees you. >> jimmy: i can't believe pitbull came out. [ cheers and applause ] i need to

. >> so i have the great honor and privilege of giving a special recognition to bobby brown i've been knowing her and her daughter for a long time was born in jones borough louisiana i have a date my mom will kill me if i ever give out a date of someone's birth i'll skip that at a young age participated in voter registration and sit in these protesting the segregation she moved to san francisco in the great migration in the mid 19 informing and san francisco 3r5r79d insight in these at city hall bringing attendance to the need for housing at hunters point for black families that married from the south and working in the shipyard and railroad and the post office in the 19 psychos the first black woman to hit the imperial department store in the 70s the first to head the equal e e o of correct national bank and wells fargo bank on the west coast in the 1980s society vice president of human resources for stanford university i can't stay stanford sorry about that this didn't flow and where she recorded directly to connecticut do less i can't rice is important in 1990s the relation analyst

all members of the revolution, wendy, lisa, brown mark, dr. finger, bobby z.n right here live in the loft. good morning to you. thank you for coming in. >> good morning. >> thank you. >> i'm fan boy. i'm a fan boy. just saying. all right. so look let's talk about -- >> he can't come to the show. >> i can't come to the show. >> he's got practices and he gets up at 3:30 in the morning and he can't come good gone through my excuses why i can't get out of the house. >> i understand. >> good to see you. >> to you. isn't what have you been up to? >> we've been on the road. >> on the road. >> definitely. >> doing your thing. >> totally. >> let's talk about real quick when you found out that prince had passed it way. your reaction and i don't know where you were but your reaction when you fanout that prince had passed away to a lot of us what just happened? it came across on the news. people were texting. it was a shock. >> it was shock to all of us. >> major shock. we're still reeling from it. and it was just something that we called each other immed immediately, and

browning. went out to australia for a visit got pulled out of minister defense office by bill mitten dore of. bobby you turned it down, you've got to take this job. i'm not going to. and then got back from that trip and my first encounter meeting weinberger who offered me -- wasn't persuading me to go to the ddci, he offered me a job at the pentagon in the process. momentarily thought that sounded pretty exciting until my wife said, are you kraes crazy? so i turned it down. and thought things were behind -- i was so immersed with president carter on the final negotiations for getting the hostages out, and, in fact, my last conversation with carter as president and president-elect is sitting next to him in the limo headed to the capital to hake him that t-- tell him that the hostages were in the aircraft able to take off until carter was president. next morning secretary says the president is calling. i thought it was carter following pup the it was the president. he went through the whole rational. when they lost new hampshire, he invited bill casey to chair his political campaign. and then asked i