the news director on a number of occasions, she here forl, i've been 20 years, but we've been bought by sinclair broadcasting and there's nothing we can do about it. and i am so angry at the general media for taking so long, like the new york times. i'm glad they're following up a bit late, like five years late or more? williams?trong guest: well, victoria is also our news director and billy general manager, until he recently decided to move on to other things. john, all news, whether it's abc, the big networks, it's scripted. it has to do with the litigious society we find ourselves in, because broadcast networks can get sued. anchors,t's cnn, the they're reading from a prompter. unfortunately, that's the way it happens. them byon-fed to producers, by staff. they're never unscripted. okay? way the business works. host: when it comes to your anchors and the scripts that read on air, how far up do those scripts go to get reviewed? guest: to the television level. it doesn't come up to the corporate level. may say, i want this commentary in this show. i may do a commentary and say i wan

president trump has a quiet morning before he heads to a private fundraiser this afternoon gearing up forle 2018 and 2020 elections. >> you promised a quiet morning and there has already been tweets and i don't know if it will be a quiet morning. but anyway, thank you very much. so here is the tweet. president trump has just tweeted about china's retaliation, he says we are not in a trade war with china. that war was lost many years ago by the foolish or uncompetent people who represented the uts. now we have a trade deficit of $500 billion a year. we cannot let this continue. let's bring in our political analyst and also political writer. great to see both of you. so it seens that tit seems that is tweeting this because of the dow futures. looks like another rocky day for the stock market. and people are worried about a trade war. how do you see it? >> people are concerned about this, but the fact that china said we will respond with dozen of categories of retaliatory moves, it has a lot of people scared. and so for a president who would say this is a sign of how well the economy is doing

aries forle know credit, but you are a relatively significant player in private equity, not just on the financing side, but as an equity investor. how to describe conditions and private equity? mr. arougheti: our private equity strategies are global and we have large distrust for control pockets. inhave industry funds and china. we are diversifying which allows us to compete in today's market. lives a lot of capital to other buyout firms, the market is very competitive. a significant amount of capital in the market and elevated purchase prices, a lot of competition in underwriting standards of weakened a little bit. for someone who is not ,ifferentiating their approach can actually out operational value to the company they buy is going to have a tough time in this market. erik: is it better to be a buyer or a lender? mr. arougheti: i think our relative basis, you're getting better relative value in most cases lending then investing. the challenge is your upside is limited. if you look at what i think the index returns will be for leveraged buyout debt versus leveraged buyout equity of t

monologue, cnn's number one trumpgu hater, so-called journalist jim acosta getting a lot of backlash forleg this about people who like and listen to the president. >> the problem is is that people around the country don't knoww it's an act. they are not in on the act. they take what he says very seriously, and they take attacks from sean spicer and sarah sanders and what they do to us on a daily basis, very seriously. they don't have all their faculties and in some cases, their elevator might not hit all floors. c my concern is that a journalist is going to be hurt one of these days. somebody is going to get hurt. and at that point, the white house, the president of the united states, they are going to have take a hard look in the mirror and ask themselves whether or not they played a role in this. >> sean: acosta took to twitter to say he's not talking about trump supporters. really? given his past outlandish anti-trump behavior, should we really believe him? here are a few of his low lights. take a look. >> what we are witnessing right now is this erosion of our freedoms in terms of cove

fema plays a supporting role. , analytics forls us to understand how prepared states and localities are. more portly, how they can understand where the -- more importantly, how they can understand where the gaps are. millions of dollars of year we provide to homeland security forces and local governments. it is not just funding. it is training and exercises. statehaving a preparedness report we can agree and rally around. about what we can do to prepare in response, which i call readiness, are teams. not all states are at the same baseline level. not every state can handle disasters. envision beinge in a handful of states now as part of a pilot. eventually, we'll act more broadly across states and other levels of government in the future. those teams are a handful of fema experts. we talked a lot about the just aboutenced fema has -- the-fema has -- about the -- fema has -- a state emergency maintenance the -- emergency -- they do have the capacity or experts. we want to build up the level of capability. so, that state at some point in the future could manage the recovery program on the

contrast of the week, hallie,ed on anderson so some extent the trump administration trying to focus on forlthis week given the high stakes meeting with emmanuel macron at the same time dealing with controversy swirling around his own cabinet, very difficult questions that he's had to answer. that his senior administration officials continue to get bombarded by questions about, particularly as it relates to the epa administrator scott pruitt who has come under scrutiny for some of his spending practice, for some ethical concerns, some of his behavior underreview as we speak. and the president continuing to stand by him saying he's someone who has carried out trump agenda. he's is someone who has moved toward deregulation. at the same time, it's yet another data point than casts a cloud over a week like this which the president does goont perfectly. so that's sort of the backdrop as we await them walking in the room. >> and we are about 20 minutes behind schedule at that point, which means that we should see emmanuel macron in the next couple minutes. we're going to take a quick break and we'

onto the media world, sources tell us cbs has a bid for emerging forling the two networks. made a below market bid, had ideas on management. they are either together-a part -- apart, or together again. >> right now, there apart. it has become about the personalities. the ceo of cbs has done great things. they did not want it to be about the person out she wanted to be about the special committees of the two companies getting together to decide whether this was a merger worth its merit. however, it has quickly become about that. it comes down to price and management. betty: they have their own ideas of who should run. >> he wants to run the combined company. coo, theumber two, the former cfo of cbs, on the other ceo hase viacom support. she would like to see him be the number two because for her, it is all about delivering synergies analysts are talking about, money that can be unlocked from this merger. she feels she needs someone who knows these assets to be in charge. yvonne: will there be a deal? what needs to happen? >> let's see. outy there were reports that the father

program forl aid the elderly and was the director of the panthers. i think you are about 40 or so. his 90 to youred old dad was in pain and could not get a prescription. the doctor said no. i'm am not going to prescribe for pain because the risk of addiction is too great. today where with one in three medicare patients has prescriptions for opioids. this was part of our effort on chronic care. i have also heard more recently more agonizing stories from parents at home who lost kids to the epidemic. lost carrie strickland who her son jordan to an overdose. he was a start athlete in the rivertown of napa. he was prescribed opioids. party ande gone to a gotten involved with some of his friends. he started using heroin. he struggled between addiction and recovery. i know we have a lot of athletes. i went to school on a basketball scholarship. i am too small, and i made up for it by being slow. who throughout their knee -- back when i was coming up, throughout their knee and suddenly became addicted to painkillers. that was unheard of. just unheard of. i am sure my colleagues are all he

looking forl be some sort of compromise that can keep both sides of her party, pro and the anti-brexitis reachable on this? we do not know. a lot about it deals with the language. union, stayingms in the customs union, or what the government currently says which is a new deal. oftainly, the remainders people who want the closest relationship with europe feeling more emboldened after this boat. -- after this vote. francine: what comes next? if you stay within the customs union it would made you need to open the door to immigration. then you ask yourself what is the point of brexit? thed: the key thing about customs union, it is about frictionless transfer of goods, not about freedom of movement. that comes with membership of the single market. what is under question now is the customs union and this is what businesses want. that means you can send your goods to and from the borders without any question. it also solves the problem of the northern irish border which has proved to be such a sticking point. this will be the debate. this bill comes back to comments in the next few weeks and