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how about bruni in florida? >> caller: i want to thank you. >> i do the morning show for everybody. thank you. >> caller: yeah. i wanted to know if i should buy shares in twitter before the inauguration due to its significance in regard to the president-elect's objective and its earning report. >> the problem with twitter is it's probably worth on the fundamentals, probably worth between 12 and 13 because the business isn't doing that well. on a takeover basis, maybe it's worth between 19 and 21. it's at 17. that's kind of no man's land. i don't like being in no man's land when i got so many terrific companies like an alphabet that my charitable trust owns or an adobe. those are better stocks. all right. we came, we saw, we really -- we nearly tasted dow 20k. next we're we're getting a ton of data that will determine whether we hit this historic milestone. it's the trump stocks versus the not trump stocks. i'll bet on the trump stocks. on "mad money" tonight, due do this week's airline down grade, do they have you shouting mayday? i'll tell you what to make the reports. then i'm cra

for the last hundred years starting with rockefeller and ending with the sul tan bruni in 1996, the wealthiest person has always been associatedded with oil. then in 1997 it is bill gates. he doesn't own any land, any gold, any oil. he has no buildings. he has no equipment. >> rose: a monopoly on a operating system. >> he has a monopoly on a knowledge system, right. and so-- . >> the idea of a different kind of order, i think, allowed us, me anyway, to think in a different way. to represent in one way, to give you that seemlessness, i thinkment and the connection between the interior, extension drk dsh exterior becomes seems. so the idea you are bringing an urban life into the interior of civic buildings. >> rose: has this profession for you been worth the struggle? >> i think so. >> rose: you think so. >> yeah, no, it is not finished. >> rose: i know but you have. >> i enjoy doing what i did. so i know it was difficult but i did not see it at the time i was doing it as a struggle. and-- . >> rose: you just thought it as a process. >> a processment and i also really believe it's possible to ma

and frank bruni, a columnist for "the new york times." i want to start with david, then get to frank. it seems to me that what he's doing is replicating what vladimir putin, vlad is doing. putin wants to diminish democracy in this country, so that he won't look so bad. this guy is trying to silence or mute credibility for the media so the people will listen to trump. >> what you have with trump is a blend of narcissism and authoritarianism. i think he believes he is never wrong. although he has, you know, been called out for lying or misstatements by the fact checkers more than any other candidate. he doesn't want accountability. at the same time, he's trying to undermine this institution we have, the free press, which presidents often find inconvenient in order to sort of preserve his ability to say whatever it is that pops into his head and that tweets and posts. he doesn't want to have a check for narcissistic reasons, and authoritytarian reasons. >> frank, it makes sense for a president whether he's a right wing or left wing or somebo

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and something about bruni. resh.se the number 4. >> if he would have chosen 3 than four. ainsley: don't people choose 4 on the first time? >> no, no. and he shuffled them the envelopes. steve: not only are you on television. but you also do these kind of readings at corporate events and stuff like that. >> i created a concept called infotainment the x are connect to the product and products of the company. you. ainsley: you said you read donald trump's mind. >> the guy was skeptical. steve: come back in two hours. brian: coming up next, i think i have got this now. judge napolitano. i am seeing judge napolitano. is he in the hallway? it's unbelievable. i have the gift. i am a mentalist. ainsley: wow. brian: or mental patient. clawp ♪ i'm burning ♪ i'm burning ♪ i'm burning for you ♪ i'm burning ♪ i'm burning ♪ i'm burning for you ♪ said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. he also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. for some,