brian morgan capitalised on them by the home side here with michael dobson running in what proved tohelen's still had time for their own try, but they missed the conversion and salford get their third win to make it five out of eight this season. snooker and judd trump made a maximum clearance on his way to the quarterfinals of the open in beijing today. playing the fifth frame, trump part of the pink, but after that was face to the difficult black for the maximum. no problems. but trump is third on five frames to three that match by five frames to three frames. also through is mark selby. from an judd trump from anjudd trump to donald trump. greg norman has told the bbc that rory mcilroy was right to play golf with the us president last month. he was widely criticised for the decision tojoin him on was widely criticised for the decision to join him on the cause. he did get a lot for it, wrongly so. if the president of the us asks you to play golf, you go, it is as simple as that. i don't care.

. >> let's discuss more of this with my panel of two, republican strategist brian morgan stern. e back. brian, you first. what do you make of senator rubio's comments on sessions? >> spot on. i mean as i've said, senator sessions was meeting with ambassadors. he's on committees that would mean that he would do that all of the time. and he may not have understood the question as to whether it was campaign activity or just in general. and it turns out over the last several days, there are so many members of congress that met with this guy and they forget because they meet with dozens of ambassadors. >> during the confirmation meerg, represent allative frank asked, any affiliated with the russian government during the course of this campaign. sessions said he was not aware of that happening. and he says i've been called a surrogate at a time or two in the campaign and i did not have communications with russians. and it turns out at least twice. so that's the difficulty here, is that he didn't recall twice whether he was there as a representative of the trump campaign during the rnc

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. >> brian robinson, republican strategist and former assistant chief of staff for georgia governor nathan deal, and jason johnson is back, professor of politics and journalism at morgante university, gentlemen, thank you so much. brian, i want to get your reaction to what the president just said there, he said it's the best thing they can do. but i'm sure a lot of people who have obamacare don't feel too good about that statement. >> there are about 10 to 11 million people on obamacare. that's half of what obamacare is, the other half is medicaid expansion which is something we need to come back to. but the people on that exchange are already frustrated about what they're facing. they've got premiums going up in huge numbers every year, high deductibles they simply can't afford. i don't know about you, but when i go to the doctor, i see signs on the front desk that say do not take insurances at the exchange. that's not access to health care. the president is right, the exchange is imploding, providers are pulling out at huge numbers. it can't go on. the people this is aimed at helping can't afford what is offered to them. on medicare, the other half of people who are

let's bring in portfolio manager of morgan stanley and brian levitt with oppenheimer. maybe being on this side of the camera, we've been up for so long that we tend to be reacting very strongly, shall i say, to a two or three-point deceleration in the dow. is 2% down the new 10% down? >> yeah, no -- >> this is your chance to blame the media, brian. >> i don't think we should be overreacting to it. you asked about the dow. i would say with the s&p 500 there's a greater than 5% correction in every single year over the last 30-something years. i think with the exception of 1995. corrections happen. i think what is surprising is that everybody is reacting as if we didn't know that the realities of governing were difficult. i mean, there was a reasonable base case optimism to be made in the aftermath of the election, but we always knew this wasn't going to be easy. health care bills don't get written in 17 days. ronald reagan won re-election 49 states to one and we didn't get tax reform until 1986. these things take time. any disruption should be taken with a grain of salt

caroline: jp morgan also taking ads off of youtube. it continues to spread. brian, first to you.raded alphabet to hold on the news. you worry was this could have global repercussions. he clearly does. how much do you worry about the stock performance going forward? >> i think it is subject in small part, if not a major part, to headline risk. you will see more brands demonstrating their concern and announcing they will be pulling their ads from youtube. unfortunately, so far, google does not appear to understand the gravity of the situation. it is on some levels mind-boggling, but also not surprising because it is google-ly. this will continue for a while. they will solve it eventually. when i meant the repercussions would be global and have an impact on their business, it is not about the boycott. we will never notice that. we will never see it in the numbers unless it did persist for weeks on end. what will happen to us every advertiser will have a conversation with google that is not focused on what the strategy should be using search to enhance brand building, how to think ab

morgan stanley. >>> welcome back to "power lunch." i'm brian sullivan in washington, d.c. by scott walker, governor of wisconsin. governor, thank you for joining us on cnbc. we appreciate it, sir. >> thank you. >> maybe no state is as interesting as yours regarding the election. you turned. you went for donald trump. you've got a lot of manufacturers in the state of wisconsin. so far, it's early. have you liked what you've heard? do you believe that we are going to get the change that we need to create the jobs that wisconsin demanded at the election? >> yeah, i think so. last year, we had more people employed in our state than ever before. year-over-year numbers for manufacturing are the top in the midwest, one of the best in the country and one of the most heavily dependent in manufacturing. for us it's important we look at the overreach, costly power plant, as i call it, the obama administration did to overreach their authority through the epa. those things being reigned in are completely important. i want tax reform. don't get me wrong. i want us to replace and reform

. >> well, brian, it's an interesting thing, because you go back to wednesday and kmi, kinder morganuying in there as well. 10,000 calls were bought to the upside. right now, look at energy transfer partners, very aggressive buying. stock was a little bit lower when they started this buying. so those options are starting to move a little bit higher. they were buying the april 37 calls. gives them about a month, obviously, in time frame. 5,000 of those were trading for about 45 cents. i've got one more real quickie just to keep up with this theme. just about five minutes ago, ete also just hit with some huge upside buying about 11,000 calls out in may, as well. so you're seeing this theme play out right now in the pipelines. i'm in these etps. i'll probably be in for about two to three weeks. i love this trade. >> what is your holding the period, though, on this trade? >> i'm going to probably be in there two to three weeks, it's an april trade, that gives me a full month. i'll be in two to three weeks. hopefully we get that move. stock has been around that 35 level multiple times, se

brian: a bank ceo, they are investment banks, these are all names you know. jamie dimon, james gorman of morgannley, 21 million, michael corbett, 16.4 million, when you see those numbers, what is your reaction? sandra: i think it is too high, very clearly. but the fault also lays a little bit with the board. the board should exert more pressure's on ceos and i think maybe jamie dimon challenged his board. i don't remember exactly. also, shareholders can exert more pressure. warren buffett has been very critical and said that the money not wall streeter's make is on a level with what they contribute. brian: do you think ceo's earn their salaries? sandra: i think shareholders are becoming more influential. institutional shareholders as well. it is not shareholders like you and i. it is institutional investors that old arch contingents of fores like blackrock example. it is not viable anymore to give these huge competition packages. -- compensation packages. brian: brian: you have been to davos two times. you are talking about, there aren't many women in it at all. what is their reaction to you wh

morgan stanley >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street." let's send it to briandown with a special guest. brian? >> david, thank you very much. appreciate that. we are honored to be joined today by al-falih, the minister of energy for saudi arabia and also the chairman of saudi aramco. your excellency, thank you for joining us. >> pleasure. thank you very much. >> does saudi arabia support an extension of the opec production cuts of may 25th? >> brian, it is premature to discuss with only two months and one week into the agreement. i think performance has been good overall, if you look at the numbers in total. compliance has been high. certainly among opec countries. the non-opec countries are getting up there. it's taking them time. there is a learning process on how to participate in a production management agreement. we want to see inventories in the second quarter. we want to see overall cohesiveness of the group and how we will work together. certainly, opec will not do it alone. we expect non-opec countries that have joined us to contribute and contribute k

morgan wright joins us with new tales of an alleged cia hack, the information of the cia uses to get into your smartphones, all released by wikileaks. that's coming up on "happening now" ." >> sandra: brianeade is very happy to see you. >> jon: i don't see him enough on the 17th floor. >> sandra: thank you, jon. >> meghan: former president obama is reportedly furious about president trump's accusations that he wiretapped trump tower during the campaign. "he was livid over the accusation that he bugged the republican campaign offices. believe that mr. trump was questioning about the integrity of the office and mr. obama himself." the report between barack obama and trump is unraveling. the rift is also distancing mr. trump from a former two-term president, who had offered to give private advice and counsel as a one-time businessman that is into his first job in public office. no love lost between the two of them, brian. >> brian: we interviewed him on "fox & friends" for days before, he said nice things about him. he did actually say he thinks barack obama's administration is behind some of the leaks when trump got arrested. knowing that, how can you actually friends with someone? for exa

. >> peter morgan, the writer of the series, he explained that in england they suffered from a a certain churchill fatigue. all the great knights, all the major actors, albert finney, brian churchill fatigue had set in, they needed something very different. god knows i'm different, but it i'm like 18 inches taller than he was. people didn't seem to mind that. >> jimmy: you put the things in your mouth, the brandoesque things. >> i know, i barely recognize myself. >> jimmy: you're fantastic. >> no, we're very, very proud. >> jimmy: congrats on that. it won the golden globes for best drama and it's worthy of your viewing. [ applause ] let's talk about "trial and error." >> "trial and error." >> jimmy: "trial and error," i think it's a brilliant idea. again this is a mockumentary -- >> that's right. >> jimmy: style show that's kind of like a -- it's almost like a murder mystery. >> yeah, it's a send up of these crime documentary series like "making a murderer." >> jimmy: which i love. oh i love all of them. >> and "the jinx," "staircase." >> jimmy: oh, i love the staircase too. oh my gosh, perfect. >> this great comedy writer jeff ashcroft, a couple of years ago he was watc

. >> you know, brian roberts has been making the rounds a bit lately, chairman and ceo of comcast, he was at the morgantanley conference earlier this week. >> i hear you were there. >> i was not there. that was in san francisco. >> oh, you were at a dinner. >> i was at a dinner where he was then at something yesterday. but talking about comcast being the aggregator of aggregators, very excited about the x-1 integration, new platform using youtube now available on it saying that 30% of x-1 subs use netflix through the platform, after just 90 days. and on demand usage growth up 35% in january. by the way, this idea of channels kind of -- i mean, you never know, right? >> we don't know. unbelievable stuff earlier this week on google. x-1, yes, i work for comcast, x-1 is pretty cool. >> it is. >> so you'll have your snap channel. >> i'm just saying you're not -- the desktop -- you know, the set top box may not exist three or four years from now. >> that is so 1990s. >> is it? >> scientific america, remember all that? >> it is. scientific atlanta and motorola. >> none of you -- >> i still got the box. they'