leads forbes magazine's list of most overpaid actors of 2017.in $68 million in pretax dollars this year. yet for every buck he earned his movies took in just $4.40. christian bale came in second denzel washington and brad pitt. chance the rapper tops the 20-17 "celebs gone good" list. the tally by the global non-profit do-something dot-org recognizes celebrities who use their platforms to raise awareness for help affect social change. music-makers dominated the list, with ariana grande ranked second, and rihanna at number three. the producers of indie films like "lady bird" hope oscar buzz will bring more blockbuster has brought in an estimated 424-million dollars in its first 12 days in north american theaters, passing "wonder woman" for second place on the 20-17 box office list. now it's a race to see whether "jedi" can pass the leader, "beauty and the beast" at 504-million, before the clock hits midnight on new year's eve. much more ahead on good morning washington. sam sweeney following some but the living room's pretty blank. we did a lot o

you look at the mainstream media, the mistakes they have been making, former managing editor of forbes magazinee this in their does it discourage you to see these mistakes? >> the media are a little bit biased. here are my numbers. 89% of what trump does is either abusive or foolhardy of 91% of the stories are negative, the media have a 2% bias. >> what do you think? >> media bias is a redundancy, of course there is bias but does anyone think conservative media would be great to trump if his policy was coming from a democrat? >> of conservative media takes a mistake like the kind of mistakes i cited earlier the whole mainstream media would come down on them, there is not the same standards of judgment with regard to conservatives as there is liberals. >> there is an emotional element we haven't seen -- emotional derangement syndrome, they thrive at the mouth. this has taken on an emotional component where ends justify the means. >> they are getting ready to roll at the bottom of the hour. what have you got? >> democrats say final tax bill will only help the wealthy but donald trump says it will

so how is this looking for kushner with this new reporting and his own words to forbes magazine? >> look, you know, i think jared kushner is the person closest to the president, a family member of course his son-in-law who has been most implicated at this point or at least who is most under investigation. i mean, nothing has been proven at this point. his family company is saying that these investigations by the brooklyn prosecutor is simply in response to damaging media reports and there's again saying there's nothing to it, they're complying with everything. i think we need to let the investigation run its course to see where it goes. it does look strange that the same senior adviser to the president, his son-in-law who met with a russian bank official, right before the election, was also meeting with deutsche banc and, you know, i think we have to wonder about what was going on here. as you say with the targeting of russians and the bots and the trolls. i think isikof's reporting for yahoo! was interesting and we'll all have to pick up the threads and continue the reporting. >

according to forbes magazine he is the eighth highest paid entrepreneur on youtube.yan's last name and his hometown -- those are top secret. >> i wonder if he knows why the highest paid player in baseball did not come to the giants. we have that players reaction and can the warriors win cookin' tonight, and took the floor against portland minus well fresh off a 6-0 road trip the warriors got back to a little home cooking tonight and took the floor against portland without three starting players. tied at 32 with portland in the second quarter nick young knocks down the 3. he scored 12 off the bench before leaving the game with a concussion. in the third kevin durant deep balls -- [ indiscernible ] a lay up and a 21-point golden state lead. 37-year-old david west elevation sensation. warriors win their 7th straight 111-104. >>> with three games left the raiders are on the outside looking in. after yesterday's lifeless loss in kansas city, jack has a little advice for his football team. >> i'd love see us just let it rip, okay? and go play. look at the -- the way the fo

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according to forbes magazine he is the eighth highest paid entrepreneur on youtube.hometown -- those are top secret. >> i wonder if he knows why the highest paid player in baseball did not come to the giants. we have that players reaction and can the warriors win without three starting players? tip off next. ♪ toyland, toyland ♪ little girl and boy land ♪ while you dwell within it ♪ you are ever happy there daddy, it's christmas! ♪ childhood's joy land never let go of your dreams. the mercedes-benz winter event is back. lease the e300 sedan for $569 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. cookin' tonight, and took the floor against portland minus well fresh off a 6-0 road trip the warriors got back to a little home cooking tonight and took the floor against portland without three starting players. tied at 32 with portland in the second quarter nick young knocks down the 3. he scored 12 off the bench before leaving the game with a concussion. in the third kevin durant deep balls -- [ indiscernible ] a lay up and a 21-point golde

just google it to see that even forbes magazine attack and that seems like a lot of money. >> i cannot speak to that particular dollar figures but i can say that one way is to oversee the conduct of the executive branch. one thing we see over time is that responsibility we have examples but it is the case that it does lack oversight. related to the appropriations process for oversight can happen and as that process has got in with the omnibus bill and then see congress fall down on the job. >> we have many more rigorous oversight hearings with unifieday government we are having some oversight hearings but it is oversight light with divided party government they go after this but they also have been agency gao by requirement are to have oversight of the programs and they have hearings related to those that is very important. but also outside groups with first amendment rights to organize and petition the government but they do oversightia and also the media with these institutions but we still need more. the joke is why don't you just go down to the line in the budget at fraud waste and

. >>> happening on the people scene, forbes magazine listed their most the mark walhberg, denzel washingtond pitt. >>> meanwhile, many are topping the list for activism. chance the rapper, the global nonprofit do something.org who to raise awareness for good causes. musicians dominated the list along chance the rapper and aanna >>> ringo star will be honored for his music and charitable deeds. his former beatle band mate paul mccart flee was knighted a year ago. >>> lee smart retired from mcdonald's in new hampshire at the age of 70. she started working nights 32 years ago when her kids were ses is loving what you do and who you're with. >> sometimes you get attached to them, i'll love them, that's what i will miss most my customers. >> i'm sure the customers will miss her. smart said she is looking forward to spending more time with family. hey, girlfriend. how's your café au lait? oh, it's actually... (squeaking of balloon) it's ver... (squeaking) i'm being so serious right now. i really want to know how your coffee is. it's... (squeaking of balloon, laughing) i had a second balloon! good

"forbes" magazine lists cuba as a possible replacement to current owner jerry richard and commended cubaning news" that he has no interest in any nfl franchise seen what the league was in decline. in fact, he repeated his prediction that the nfl will implode in 10 years because of the head injury problem. lauren: mark cuban wants to stay with us while not exactly what were going to do right now. jared max with the interesting news from the basketball hall of fame. >> good morning, ladies. no longer will they have to wait for full seasons after the retirement to become knowledgeable. guys like steve nash and ray allen who retired after the 23rd and-14 become eligible because the hall of fame in. has been reduced to three years. the president basketball hall of fame stadium by allowing players, coaches, referees to become eligible after three seasons they will be able to celebrate the best in the game. an opportune time throughout their career. congratulations to you. hall of famer gino arriola, the fastest coach ever to reach 1000 career wins. a twofer tuesday in this basketball milestone.

that' according to new findings by forbes magazine.he peninsula city of atherton made the top of the list with the median price of a home at nine-point-six million dollars. coming in at number three was los altos hills with a home price over seven million dollars. followed by palo alto with the price just a little below that. the marin county city of ross came in at number five. and hillsborough was number eleven. (grant) on the peninsula... the long awaited opening of the la honda creek open space preserve as part of the ever expanding mid-peninsula regional open space district.(vicki) kron four's rob fladeboe was among those there to mark the opening of the six-thousand acre preserve.. he says it offers hikers and people on horseback -- some of the most beautiful terrain anywhere in the bay area. there are many beautiful places to hike in the bay area and now there is one more. halfway between the crest of the santa cruz mountains and the pacific ocean, the la honda creek preserve is a gem that is no longer hidden to hiking enthusias

that' according to new findings by forbes magazine.e the top of the list with the median price of a home at nine-point-six million dollars. coming in at number three was los altos hills with a home price over seven million dollars. followed by palo alto with the price just a little below that. the marin county city of ross came in at number five. and hillsborough was number eleven. ( james ) and happening tomorrow... firefighters in marin county will be picking up more bikes to give to kids affected by the north bay fire storm. the bikes were donated by a san jose company and the firefighters will pick them up tomorrow morning and then hand them out on december 10th. this is video from last month when firefighters handed out 900 bikes to families in santa rosa. ( james ) coming up on the kron 4 morning news... see the steps that omne east bay city is taking to get the homeless off the streets. ( james ) and after the break... as you get ready to make your holiday cookies... we will show you which ar the most popular all across the coun

jean is a cpa, small business advocate in a business columnist for the washington examiner in forbes magazineee you. >> thank you for having me. mike: here we are at the end of the year where some people make charitable contributions and what should folks be watching for in doing in the final days of 2017 following the passage of taxable? >> let's get right to the point even though it is christmas eve and i'm sure people don't want to be talking about taxes. it's important to think about right now. we've got one more week to take action. for starters the concept is this. our tax rates in 2018 are going to be going down so what people are doing now is there trying to accelerate any deduction into this year when tax rates are higher and try to push legally any income they can into next year when your tax rates are going to be lower. you mentioned charitable and that's an easy one to do right away. you got a fever cheery to give money to, consider giving more of a deduction. now the end of the year because tax rates are higher this year and you want to try to take as many deductions as you can a

>> this was debunked yesterday by "forbes" magazine, and debunked from senator hatch to senator corkerit's completely not true. these are concepts that have been well litigated -- >> so real estate developers do not get any benefits -- >> what i am speaking to is the news story that you are citing, basically. that has been debunked. >> but do real estate developments -- >> everybody gets a benefit in terms of how we have tried to approach this bill. >> not everybody in the country gets a benefit here. >> what i am saying, from a business point of view. what you are trying to assert is something was air dropped in at the end, and -- >> do real estate developers like president trump get -- >> i am a real estate developer, and we worked hard to make sure financial and health care and all these other areas benefit. >> okay. one of the president's economic advisers, seems he had a rude awakening at a ceo's conference where the ceo's in the room were asked what they would do with these kinds of tax cuts, because let's remember, businesses are sitting on a record amount of cash right now. the

. >>> house republicans now gearing up to vote on this big tax bill tomorrow and today "forbes" magazine this could give $11 million a year in savings to donald trump himself and other real estate moguls. joined by reigning member of the budget committee. senator, are the last minute additions to just helpful to very reach people or do they reflect sweetener or corruption in your view? >> what i do know ari, this tax bill gets worse the longer it stays in the conference committee surrounded by lobbyists. it was rotten to its core to begin with. as you said, longer it's in conference behind closed doors more you have special interest giveaways to help donald trump and others. american people are on to this, know it's a huge giveaway to corporations, know it's going to be paid for increasing taxes on millions of middle-class families. we're going to fight this to the end but if it passes we're going to take this around the country. this is not what the people of this country bargained for. >> i got to ask you kind of a funny question, i'm sure you respect senator corker, but is it bad sign

. >> "forbes" magazine lists boesky among the 400 richest people in america.million. >> where's my share of the profits? >> ivan gave the commencement speech in 1986 at berkley and he became famous for one line in that speech. >> i urge you as a part of your mission, seek wealth. it's all right. >> a new film "wall street" used boesky's words as part of the dialogue. >> greed is good. greed is right. greed works. >> when michael douglas in the movie said "greed is good," there's a cartoon expression. but there's truth to it. there was a sense that it is okay to be greedy. it is okay to maximize your wealth. >> what i want to see above all is that this country remains a country where someone can always get rich. >> big companies gobbling up little companies. little companies gobbling up big companies. eight years ago, there were 1,500 corporate takeovers. last year there were 4,000 involving $200 billion. >> this kind of deal is called a leveraged buyout. the company borrows the money, using its assets as collateral for the loan. and the company issues ious. be

you just have to google it and that even forbes magazine mentioned it. lot of ms like an awful money. to t: i can't speak of icular dollar figures what we often refer to as waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. i think say one of congress's fundamental responsibilities is to oversee the conduct of the branch.e and one thing we see over time oversight is that responsibility atrophy. not across the board. good e examples of congressional oversight but it s definitely the case congress does less oversight. is the appropriations process. that is historically a place for oversight can happen at the appropriations committees as that proposals and rocess has gotten less robust and relies more on continuing esolutions and omnibus bills that is where we have seen congress fall down on the job. phame-and-saphaome add we have rigorous overseating with divided. between them we are having oversight hearings on oversight the other hearings are oversight like and divided they go after there. >> they are there to pursue proud, waste and abuse but they the g.

i read an articles in "forbes" magazine and that article said this orange grower was doing incredibleell and i would be on the ground floor if i bought it i bought 10 shares of this stock. i was in on the ground floor, you know what ground floor i was in i was on the cheap linoleum floor that i ended up sipping from the orange crop died and wiped out my investment. i should have given up right there. i didn't i changed my m.o what i gave up on was buying a stock off a well researched article. i didn't hit me how to do it a better way until i got a call froman old high school friend, a steel mill called sps was higher if i were looking forring a high paying job. they had a lot of orders and looking for workers. my friend thought i might want a job. those calls from friends for a job, they can be like gold i said, naw, i was happy where i was. i decided why not look into sps and see how it was doing as a company, a stock i went to midtown new york and read up on anything and everything sps which then changed to st technologies they had everything at that library, business periodicals, w

. >> that taco hater right there is peter brimelow, a writer and former editor at "forbes" magazine and "national review." he's kind of the cub scout leader of the alt-right. >> some of you may have seen the news of vice president, he was booed repeatedly by the audience. if anybody had done anything like this to barack obama, the media would have lynched them. we can use that word lynch now because we don't have to worry about political correctness. there is no, quote-unquote, diverse america. there is only white america, the people who voted, voted for trump. they are america. everyone else is just along for the ride. [ applause ] >> this american ride is making me nauseous. maybe i'm not tall enough to ride it. time to talk to the people here. and out of about 200 people in the room, i would guess there were like five who were women. let's start there. where are the women? >> generally political movements are men, right? >> with black people in the civil rights movement that was dominated by women. >> well, they're there, they just might not -- >> they're not here. >> don't misjudge.

he tops "forbes" magazine's list for the top grossing actor of the year thanks to his eighth film inurious" pulling in 1.6 billion in global ticket sales and second place with 1.5 billion, really close second, the rock. his furious co-star also appeared in "baywatch" and "jumanji" and gal godot gets a boost from her appearance in "justice league." >> she's not quite as involved as the other two. >> very active. i watched "wonder woman" twice. >> she is stunning. >> she's gorgeous. >>> now to the replica of the original rocky statue commissioned by sylvester stallone for "rocky 3" recently auctioned. guess who bought it? he paid just over $400,000 for the honor to receive the 12-foot-tall statue of his california home. no one knew who bought it until he posted this video. >> i just want to say, rocky has been laying down on the job but he shall rise again. okay. o ut. welcome home. >> i thought he was going to say, yo, adrian. >> i would really love for him to do that just in my honor. that would be nice. i was -- i don't know if i was named after the movie but i definitely have heard

donald trump, according to forbes magazine, which did a report, according to his 2005 tax returns, iset $11 million in tax breaks. average american families are going to get a couple thousand dollars back. when donald trump gets $11 million, that's the reality. >> sounds like a lot more -- >> moreover, this does nothing in terms of meat on the bones requiring big corporations to hire more working people or to raise wages. there's a couple companies who have come out to say, you know, like at&t, we're going to give everyone 1,000 bucks. >> only a couple of them. >> john, it does nothing to require every single corporation who gets a permanent tax cut to hire more people or to raise wages. it does nothing to guarantee that. >> and dave and john, thank you so much. i'm going to have you stick around and it is the american people that are going to decide if they feel that this makes a difference for them. they will speak in the end. gentlemen, stay with me on this holiday monday. and next, cnn is going to count down the top seven moments from the first year of the trump presidency. we are

recently, "forbes" magazine reported something we north carolinians have known for some time. north carolina is the number one state for business. to give credit where it is due, the tar heel state's successful business atmosphere is in large part due to the north carolina legislature which has cut corporate and personal tax rates since republicans assumed the majority in 2010. this year, the legislate chur enacted a budget that reduces -- the legislature enacted a budget that reduces the state's income tax from $5.499 to 5.25. elected officials in raleigh created an impressive pro-business policy agenda that reduced the state's corporate income tax from .93k9 in 2013 to 3% in 2017. which will drop to 2.5% in 2019 this pro-growth corporate income tax reduction has played a pivotal role in making north carolina attractive to businesses. the state of north carolina is a wonderful place to start a business and to live. and people from every states are moving to the state in droves. migration rates to north carolina consistently rank in the highest percentiles in the nation. our s

cory: i read, like, "forbes" and "forbes magazine." dimon: you're kidding me.y: it's really inspiring. it's pretty cool. dimon: thank you. cory: what was one of the hardest things you... happened to your company, and, like, how did you solve it? dimon: well, you know, first of all, many companies, yours, there are always hardships. cory: yeah. dimon: always ups and downs, so you always got to be prepared for them and just persevere through the downs. you know, get help when you need it. that's another thing you learn in life, you can't do all the things well, so who you partner with is really important. so, i mean, i think hooking up with marcus is gonna be the best thing that happened to you. cory: nice to meet, again. dimon: you too. lisa: can i take a picture real quick? dimon: of course you can. lemonis: i felt that cory and lisa needed to have some small wins along the way. being in business isn't about making a million dollars in the first year. it's about enjoying and celebrating the little wins, and then letting them mount up over time. cory: oh, wow. t

been named the highest—earning youtuber of 2017 — making £12.3 million this year, according to forbes magazine videos. a few days ago i set myself a challenge to create a hallowe'en scheme and this is what i came up with. it's not very good. why don't you? let's with. it's not very good. why don't you ? let's check with. it's not very good. why don't you? let's check it out today. i told you to use... let's see what comes up. told you to use... let's see what comes up. i haven't checked any of these... just do a great job. so i'm going to fix this today. i'm totally aware of contradictions i expect if a relationship. but when it comes to you, i know exactly what i want from you, if you like the video subscribe. go ahead and click that button and hit the bell so you can be notified... there are some highly successful you tubers and joining me to explain this world is aj brinnand. co—editor of teneighty uk, an online magazine dedicated to youtube and internet culture. staggering to discover that dan tdm made £12.3 million. how did he do it? dan is being very smart. many of the you tubers are bei

ryan began his youtube page at 4 and now two years later the "forbes" magazine has a listed him as onellion dedicated followers. his most recent post which we looked at it three ties. weren't sure we were looking at it correctly. it has been viewed over 800 >> get out. are you serious? >> yes. 800 million times. [ applause ] >> when you started that story you said $11 million, kid review toys. this lady -- i don't know your name. you looked right at your son like, what's going on, man? enough of these free meals around the house. pick it up. >> i think there are a lot of breakfast tables all across america doing that same thing? that's all i got. >> thank you, lara. [ applause ] >>> it is fun to see everybody's reaction to some of these stories in "pop news." >>> now to a big day of online deals as you rush to finish or start your holiday shopping. it's green day, green monday which means huge savings and one of the top sellers so far this year, hose home voice assistants. becky worley is joining us from san francisco. becky, it seems like there's a little bit of a battle going on. tel

you just have to google it and that even forbes magazine mentioned it. lot of ms like an awful money. to t: i can't speak of icular dollar figures what we often refer to as waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. i think say one of congress's fundamental responsibilities is to oversee the conduct of the branch.e and one thing we see over time oversight is that responsibility atrophy. not across the board. good e examples of congressional oversight but it s definitely the case congress does less oversight. is the appropriations process. that is historically a place for oversight can happen at the appropriations committees as that proposals and rocess has gotten less robust and relies more on continuing esolutions and omnibus bills that is where we have seen congress fall down on the job. phame-and-saphaome add we have rigorous overseating with divided. between them we are having oversight hearings on oversight the other hearings are oversight like and divided they go after there. >> they are there to pursue proud, waste and abuse but they the g.

i'm calling about an article that i read from forbes magazine december 8, 2017.is entitled, has our government spent $21 trillion of our money without telling us? and it was co-authored with the successor of economics at michigan state university. and mainly looking into military expenditures that are not accounted for. if you couldndered stick to that? guest: i did not read the article, per se, but that is as far asic for years where is the money going? how is it being spent? the pentagon actually just this audit began an official department-wide. they really want to know where this money is going, how they can prevent ways in the future. this is a topic that lawmakers have really gotten down hard on the military about. but that audit will not be finished until sometime in 2018. host: ellen mitchell, the reporter for the help her you can find her work at thehill.com ellen mitchellat 23. coming up, we will be taking more of your phone calls. republicans can call 202-748-8001. democrats can call 202-748-8000. and independents can call 202-748-8002. later on, andy

i don't know if you remember, i think it was 19 data no, it was 2006, forbes magazine said it would bee year end went down 70% after that. but it's been chugging along the past three years. you think it keeps going. >> the fact that i mentioned it probably means it will go down as well. here's the thing, we are shifting to graphic computing. they make the chips that make that possible. it's big and ai and self learning. i think the stock potentially doubles as we shift into graphic computing. this is home automation and artificial intelligence, it's not good to be immediate but i think it's a strong play. i'm keen to stay on it. >> they are taking so much market share in the fastest growing areas. do you own the stock personally? >> family owns it, personally do not in our company recommended but we do not trade against our clients so we did not own it. >> how does our audience make money on it. >> here's the deal. i think i've been right, i felt more confident the past eight years betting against the fed because they continue to talk about how many hikes were going to have. i do think

heh had interview with forbes or "fortune" magazine, not too much earlier talking e about, i brout up to the president the working families act which puts money directly in the pockets of people making 25, 50, 75,000 dowel lars a year. the president liked that. he said it h then. he said it in phone call a kruper of us were on there later. youen know what happened? went down to the majority leaders office. my republican friend walked into the office. they had wall street lobbyists. they had had their drug cop lobbyists and tobacco company lobbyists. that is whereol they wrote the bill. there was no light of day. it was legitimate process, the night we had markup in finance committee, if you call it legitimate, give us a bill with almost nolm warning. try to jam it through. you change iin had in the middle of the night. talk aboutex next day. change it in the middle of the night. health care provision congressional budget office said 13 million people will lose insurance. rates go up, premiums, 10% a year. 500 month a day. 550 next year. pay 605 the following year. pay 660 something a

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. >> senator steve forbes is here he has a question for i. >> senator,. >> i read your magazine mr. ook about you thank you. but one of the criticisms of the tax bill is that the individual cuts many ask expired whereas beusiness ones seem eternal life how do you answer that cure that next year the year after we can take expire dates off tax cuts? >> well -- i answer it this way steve. this is a only half the store. i mean on the one hand the democrats have said you don't care about the deficit. well why do you think we didn't make the personal income tax cuts permanent? because we were living win means 1.5 trillion-dollar, now president bush's tax cuts were quote temporary too became pertinent after rolled over, the personal income tax cuts supposedly expire 2025 will never expire. they will be rolled over. critics on that part of the bill are a little disingenuous in my opinion. >> are you going to get to a time to finally shuc.k. off self impoverished restraints of cbo we know estimates tax cuts did not work for economy we know those numbers are fibering why still will go them as