charlie: i should say gabelli grew up in the same neighborhood as my father.ilanthropist for that neighborhood and immaculate conception church which he gave a lot of money to which i was baptized in. liz: and then the devil got to you. charlie: [laughter] liz: you guys remember the french astrologer? up next we have the modern day version, jason calacanis joins us next on his latest presidential prediction and it involves a white house whistleblower. stay tuned we're going to get that and his thoughts on a.i., so much more with jay cal, coming up. ♪ limu emu... ♪ and doug. (bell ringing) limu, someone needs to customize and save hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual. let's fly! (inaudible sounds) chief! doug. (inaudible sounds) ooooo ah. (elevator doors opening) (inaudible sounds) i thought you were right behind me. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, ♪ ♪ liberty. ♪ ♪ i have type 2 diabetes, but i manage it well. ♪ ♪ jardiance! -it's a little pill with a ♪ ♪ big story to tell. ♪ ♪ i take once-daily jardiance ♪ ♪ at each day's staa

gabelli may or may not be part of those lawsuits.r thing, i am not so sure that apollo and sony are out of it. at least on the apollo side. you know, they are still snooping around this, i heard as of yesterday, from someone close to them. let's say someone that knows what they're doing. they're just looking to see how this all plays out with the shareholder lawsuits. i'm not saying they're going to do it, but if there are significant shareholder lawsuits on in that muddies up the water here, you could see apollo come back in. i don't know if they come in with sony. sony has some issues with foreign ownership over -- it's a foreign company, japanese company. foreign ownership of local stations and things like that that paramount if owns is an issue. i mean, i guess you could sell those, but it will be an issue. there's no real cfius issues with the current deal like government worried about foreign ownership. liz: yeah. >> clearly, from what i understand, they are looking at it, and they're looking at the issue that we're talking abo

liz: and tomorrow gabelli.io will be talking about paramount obviously. >> can't wait, can't wait. by the way -- liz: something about a quarter of a percent. >> i want to add this, liz, the minute we got off the air on friday said there might be lawsuits he did file something in delaware chancery court. not a lawsuit, demand for information from paramount. you should ask him about that. liz: information. we will, charlie, thank you very much. look at the s&p 500. right now it needs 18.56 points to clock a new record. it is up 12.64 at the moment. not quite there. with three minutes left to trade, let's dive right in, more market reaction to trump's vp nomination, b. riley chief market strategist art hogan. art, charlie is right. whether it is some type of an attack or some big news headline sometimes the markets have very short-term reaction and they just completely calm down. what do you think? what will be the longer term vapor trail for all that has happened since saturday to right now? >> i well tell you th

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paramount investor mario today today -- gabelli and -- larry: hello folks, i'm you i'my kudlow. this is "kudlow." we have breaking news. president trump has picked senator jd vance of ohio as his running mate and also mr. trump has woken the republican nomination for president. we just heard the count here on the floor. we've got the great senator tommy tuberville on that, much more in just a few moments. but first up, fox news mark meredith standing by with the details. mark, you have got a lot of news today. what's cooking? >> reporter: [laughter]. larry, you're right the convention is just getting started but no shortage of headlines at this hour. the first one that former president trump has selected his running mate, 39-year-old junior senator of ohio jd vance. an iraq war veteran. a graduate of yale and also ohio state. he had been on the short list for this vp contender spot quite a while along with him and senator marco rubio of florida and doug burgum the governor of north dakota. what is fascinating about this, larry, how quickly this frame to fruition as we got closer

as you know, i'm very good friends with mario gabelli, and he's out there making noises around how toor negotiating the best deal for them. >> who do you blame? the committee that's responsible for accepting the offer? >> i think old board and the old management didn't do their job in positioning this company well. they passed at the sale of b.e.t., they passed on the sale of showtime. they made so many different strategic errors along the way that made them get into this problematic phase. and i think that the process was not run smoothly. as we all know, all the leaks that happened, it's just something that was just out of this world. >> do you think it's over in terms of the ghost shop. anybody else potentially looking at it? >> i'm still hopeful. you hear rumors that different people are looking at it. it wouldn't shock me, some of these large streamers that have so much money this they could go out and why it for a rounding error. you just think about a netflix, they need sports, you know, cbs -- >> do you think a regular ltor under this current administration, under the administ