>> christopher nolan's dark knight but i would say the next two would be that tim burton movies, popularth jack nicholson and controversially, the '92 with danny devito and michelle pfeiffer, although i like the film that came out two years ago. >> joe? >> michael keaton, sorry, guys. i liked him as batman. >> you can't argue on taste. we have to disagree agreeably in our civic batman debates, i know you feel that way, joe. i go dark knight, dark knight rises is big for me. exclusive to in the week tonight, new york times writer ezra klein, you know him from his writing and podcasting, my next guest, he sounded early warnings that became the conventional conversation about biden and he says there's a way out of this, next. so, i breathe better. and we both sleep better. and stay married. announcer>>> what if you could whiten your teeth by simply brushing your teeth? now you can with smileactives, the teeth whitening breakthrough that safely gets your teeth white and keeps them white every day just by brushing your teeth. christine>>> i never thought that whitening my teeth could be so ea

that is that is the pillar of biography is if you ask me and along comes christopher nolan making this movie that only that only has earned billions. i heard christopher nolan when he accepted the academy award speak his name and speak american prometheus so. i am beyond honored to be here with you tonight and i that embarrasses you. and not only that book but your other biography most recently of jimmy carter. but back when you were writing for the nation in the early eighties and i was a scribe at the washington post, kai and i kind of circled each other we never quite knew each other as friends. but later in vietnam period, we both really fell to william conrad gibbons. but is it a biography or is it a memoir? it's it's both. and and it's neither a nor it's it's certainly a great parts, but it's biography and it's research. i'm not about to say, kai, it's a new form. no, it's a reported and i think it memoir. well, let me take a detour. you know, one of the things that i had the good fortune to do in my seven years now as the director of the leon levy center was to found a master's

>> the single best is christopher nolan's "dark knight."uld be the '89 one with jack nicholson and i would say controversially, with danny devito and michelle pfeiffer. i also liked the one that came out two years ago. >> joe? >> michael keaton. sorry, guys. i liked him as batman. >> you can't argue on taste. and we have to disagree agreeably in our civic batman debates. i know you feel that way. of course, i go "dark knight" but "dark knight rises" is big for me as well. we have new details by the end of the hour in a story that we continue to track which is the security failure. the time line of the horrific assassination attempt. new details as they try to learn more about the possible motives of the shooter. we'll deal in the facts tonight. >>> and while the democrats turn up the heat, we have an exclusive tonight. "new york times" writer ezra klein is my exclusive guest. he sounded early warnings that became the conventional conversation about biden. he says there is a way out of this, next. ay out of this, next after careful review of

so on the cable side of the business, and at nbc, you know, christopher nolan coming over to our studio grow. it's got a great director and lo and behold you end up with a pile of oscars. going after the nba. they'll be more, and then putting, you know, quite a few billions of dollars into epic universe in florida. that's the better -- that and returning capital to the our shareholders has been a good formula for us and it starts with having great businesses you can make better and invest in organically. we look around at the chess board everyone wants to ask about, inheriting a lot of other people's problems is, it's a tough way to do it versus just go build around the great assets we already have. >> go to ask about those problems, though. do you expect more -- maybe we here at cnbc here, do you expect a lot more consolidation or do you think actually the regulatory environment there won't be. by the way, maybe some of these companies continue to have problems and maybe an opportunity in the future? >> you can't control those kind of things. so what you do is what mike just said very