>> after the cnn interview with dennis rodman when he you know had the melt down on cnn. was like wow, you know and then i got some calls about 24 hours before the game and everything from my wife, my family back home. we couldn't get no tv over there. we didn't know what was going on. but my wife was giving me feedback. i wish i would have done it. things would have been different. i did my research and now i'm aware of what is going on. there were many things that you could have done. many charities that you could have aligned yourself with. what made you team up in this effort to help kenneth bay? >> because of the backlash that i resolceived i wanted to let t know, that no, i didn't want no harm, no foul, i wanted to do something and make it positive. i didn't know with my ignorance and not doing my due diligence, i didn't know the whole situation. >> when you heard and said he wanted to get involved what did you think? >> nothing good came from these guys going to north korea. we have to turn what is a negative into a positive. who better to do it than kenny anderson

. >> so what about dennis rodman? and are you sending anyone else.h, he is not our ambassador. >> obama appeared on the show for one reason, to push people to enroll in obama care. >> let's get this out of the way. what did you come here to plug? >> i think it is fair to say, i didn't be here with you today if i didn't have something to plug. have you heard about the affordable care act? >> oh, yeah, the thing that doesn't work. why would you get the guy that created the zune to develop your website. >> it works great now. millions of americans have got plans. most young americans right now are not covered. i'm going to press this. >> don't touch that, please. >> will this get young people to sign up? more than 6 million people have watched the video. and 19,000 went to health care.gov. >> you've been shooting these shows here in the diplomatic room? who gave you permission to do that? >> bush. >> jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >> funny stuff. >> some critics say, is this what presidency, it has evolved into an interview like this. but the

question talk about making up a character such as montagu but today's headline on this cnn says dennis rodman you could do not make this up as well. [laughter] people have really crazy stories as well. but talk about rodman. a great basketball story about frankenstein. [laughter] i don't know i feel bad for him in the end he says i am practicing basketball diplomacy like ping-pong diplomacy. and with the huge framework a very active framework that does not exist the chinese is very busy sending positive signals. in early 1971 as a signal. that would be a very easy low hanging fruit to show political goodwill. more than anything else. [applause] >> good morning i heard there was a vicious rumors going around i did not make it out of new york city so i am glad the volunteers believe this is with yourn this morning. i love great americani lo stories and i love beehives and a combination of those two things led me to tell this t amazing but looked over american story of ourou b original astronauts' wives. i will bring back to 1959 there is the press conference in washington d.c. and the whole cou

have been a half dozen instances where north korea has sent us down with saber rattle, even as dennis rodman worked diligently to get a basketball game going. don't laugh. ping pong diplomacy broke the ice with china, but the idea of rodman as kisseninger, far fetched. even turmoil in the emerging markets without follow-throughs have created multi-day sell-offs. there are nonfinancials that led up rather quickly, and all you had was tons of future selling that royaled the market, shook out a lot of fearful retail investors and with stronger hands of people who own equities. i could do every one of these at length. ever since the s&p futures took over, these sell-offs have become so all-encompassing that they beget sellers in their own right. in care for the detailed and time-honored pattern of almost all stocks going down in these situations, how they all go down on day one, that's what happens today. at least today the oil stocks huge beneficiaries of the rally in oil actually went up after an initial hesitation. although most could not hold their gains. on day two, all stocks go down again

question talk about making up a character such as montagu but today's headline on this cnn says dennis rodman you could do not make this up as well. [laughter] people have really crazy stories as well. but talk about rodman. a great basketball story about frankenstein. [laughter] i don't know i feel bad for him in the end he says i am practicing basketball diplomacy like ping-pong diplomacy. and with the huge framework a very active framework that does not exist the chinese is very busy sending positive signals. in early 1971 as a signal. that would be a very easy low hanging fruit to show political goodwill. more than anything else. rescue. please welcome lily koppel. [applause] >> good morning. so nice to be here. i heard there was a vicious rumor going around and i didn't make it out of new york city because of the weather's so i am so glad volunteers believe this is actually me and i'm here sharing the story with you this morning. i love great american stories and i love beehives. and a combination of those two sayings as you will learn lead me to tell this amazing but looked over america

dennis rodman is an absurd guy. we do some absurd stuff. guilty.it we get one of the best documentaries ever made? yes. >> this is the riprice of reporting basically. >> we found a way to get into a country that sim possibis impos get into. >> well, it is compelling stuff. congratulations on the success. >> i love being on your show. >> it's mutual admiration society here. thank you as always. for more, check out vice news.com and you can catch the second season of the hbo series on friday, march 14th, 11 p.m.. >>> coming up, something really big happened deep in the heart of texas last night. tea parties struck out. but that does that mean they won't keep swinging. when jake and i first set out on our own, we ate anything. but in time you realize the better you eat, the better you feel. these days we both eat smarter. and i give jake purina cat chow naturals. made with real chicken and salmon, it's high in protein like a cat's natural diet. and no added artificial flavors. we've come a long way. and whatever's ahead, we'll be there for each other.

are lousy with skulls." [ light laughter ] speaking of north korea, a new report reveals that dennis rodmanstock the north korean elite with items otherwise banned in the country, including american vodka and irish whiskey. which explains the text i got from kim jong-un last night that said, "you up?" [ light laughter ] thankfully, i wasn't. because i do not want to get into that with him again. "star trek" veteran george takei told cnn on monday that he feels edward snowden would be safer in american prisons than he is currently in russia. which means, that on monday someone on cnn said the words, "for more on edward snowden, we turn to george takei." [ laughter ] this is kind of a strange story. new research -- new research is showing that humans may have evolved from sea sponges. though i don't think watching "the bachelor" counts as research. [ laughter and applause ] we may reach conclusion that we evolved from sea sponges, but it is not research. apologizes in advance, this is kind of a bummer. an investigation by britain's "sunday post" reveals that cash-strapped citizens are startin

anything to get the message out even if it includes having to knock off zach when he asked about dennis rodmanou so much, phil mattingly. coming up, more about the getting into the tv business. , does hedary investor have what it takes to turnaround the television business? we will be speaking to bob wright, former nbc chief. stay "in the loop." ♪ >> you are watching "in the loop." you can watch us anywhere. to headlines have the media world buzzing this week. for us, and sweeney who drove the success of the cable channel disney will be leaving the company. she says to pursue television directing possibilities. also, warren buffett yesterday, berkshire hathaway, to put it price tag on a tv station in miami, buying it for over $1 billion in a stock swap. the station itself is worth about $364 million. buffett in return will be getting some shares of ram holdings, the former parent of washington post. each of these moves sends a signal to the media world, and we want to decipher what the signals are with bob wright, former chairman and ceo of nbc universal and also ran ge capital as well and is

online video ad people are strange to discover them in a big way through their hbo show, they sent dennis rodmanow they are launching vice news, to get into the game of shorter form content being part of the shorter form his conversation. what is interesting about the business demographics. they really get a lot of viewers that the traditional news outlets would be very interested in attracting to themselves. this into wendy's has about the growth of the business. >> if we hit our numbers this year, and predict us to next year, that would be that are worse would be exponential. -- are worth would be exponential. if we're doing $50 billion is a top line in the ever-increasing scale, that would be worth as much as twitter, i would think. we are great company, but not making any profit. >> generate $1 billion in revenue? >> in the next 12 to 18 months. >> what is the end goal for vice? talk about that? >> we did. if you look at the investors they have, they have some influential ones. ichard murdoch, tom thaton, smith says that fox investment which values the company about 1.5 billion dollars gave

. >> what did you think of dennis rodman's latest trip to north korea?been seen. like that basketball performances. after that we sort of parted ways, and he's gone on to do what he does. we have nothing to do with that. but, you know -- >> don't give an old media answer. >> it's weird. it's a weird thing. >> that is an old media answer. >> we celebrate the absurd advice. and it's an addbsurd country with an absurd guy. you there go. >> and a lost people involved in diplomacy think it's very hurtful and damaging. >> why? i don't think it was. i think if you look at -- and i've gone on record to say this i grew up at the end of the cold war when there were let's point a lot of missiles at each other and knock all of and have propaganda on both sides. we should always talk. we should always have dialogue. we should understand everyone. when people saw a documentary on it. at the end, you see the kids rising up against basketball they're kids. regimes don't represent the whole country. people should talk. >> in the piece leading up to you critics say sensat

i kind of feel bad for dennis rodman in the end.think he's talked -- he says i'm practicing basketball diplomacy just like ping-pong diplomacy, it's the same stuff. it's just that, you know as i found out pipping pong diplomacy had this huge framework behind it with political goodwill, and very active, a very active framework with. that doesn't exist. and the chinese were very busy sending positive signals that whole year leading up to -- we didn't get them all. now, one interesting comparison they actually released a dying priest, the chinese, in early 1971 as a signal. now, you compare that to the north korean treatment of kenneth bae who is also in ill health. that would be a very easy low-hanging fruit to show political goodwill. it hasn't happened. i'm afraid what tennessee misrodman is up to is probably more to do with reviving his own career than anything else. >> well, nicholas, thank you so much. [applause] >> now, from the seventh annual savannah book festival lily koppel discusses her book the astronauts' wives' club a tr

is this more different, is this that difficult versus the dennis rodman basketball situation with north korea? >> we managed to survive that. i don't know how. >> one wonders whether the markets will have an impact in russia as the ruble falls to new lows, as the stock market gets hit very hard. i have no idea whether mr. putin cares. but it's interesting to watch. >> there is something really -- you came back from sochi, isn't it interesting the timing? what was the olympics have been like if we had been -- >> would the u.s. have pulled back? paralympics continue now, an interesting place to be reporting on sports. we are mentioning and keep our eye on ukraine. jim maceda live in moscow with the latest. good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, carl. there's a lot of talk about ukraine being on the brink of war, and here's why. right now there are thousands of russian forces who have either occupied or surrounded crimea's airports ferry ports, telecom towers and government buildings. at the same time surprise war games are still going on, which means about 150,000 troops and 900 tanks thro