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author and columnist jeff greenfield wrote a book about that. he says that kennedy would have pulled out of vietnam. he said he would have dropped johnson for his second term, and he claimed the counterculture movement of the '60s might not have happened, and also no great society. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. like a milk-bone biscuit. ♪ say it with milk-bone. [ unr ass [ female announcer ] e people like to pretend a flood could never happen to them. and that their homeowners insurance protects them. [ thunder crashes ] it doesn't. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov/pretend to learn your risk. you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec-d®. powerful relief of nasal congestion and other allergy symptoms -- all in one pill. zyrtec-d®. at the pharmacy counter. ♪ [ male announcer ] laura's heart attack didn't come with a warning. today her doctor has her on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack, be sure to talk to your doctor b

thank you, rich greenfield. btig. i know we have a difference of opinion on the desk.ve the stock. >> love the stock. >> weiss, you just sold a lot of it. >> i sold -- look, i went to a trader, i had about a 20% gain, why take the earnings risk? i have a small tag in left to ride with it. to me, it goes down to the valuation by discipline, not by highly valued equities. >> there was a time where you told me you looked past the valuation on this particular name. >> right, as a trade, looking at momentum. i was capturing the momentum. i didn't feel good capturing the momentum with linkedin. >> a great way to play this. pete pointed out earlier a lot of people are moving into options as a way to replace long stocks. we're looking at the options that expired this week on facebook. we just discussed it. the 45s, you can sell the 45 puts on facebook and get a credit of over $1. you can take that dollar and go out two weeks, three weeks and buy a 52-50 call, so you're using this big influx of people moving into the options, the high premium, to your favor, so that's a great w

bay crews are mopping up a house fire, the fire broke out before 9:00 this morning at a house on greenfield court, officials were worried for a period hooking for the seniors who live in the house and they found them outside the house. it is not immediately known what caused the fire. >> happening now in santa clara construction work has resumed at levi stadium following a fail accident yesterday. the project managers met this morning with crews to discuss the accident and safety measures. grief counselors are on the site. a 60-year-old edward lake jr. died when a rebar fell on him. he was from napa. >> a sense of urgency is kicking in on capitol hill with two solutions to end the government shut down and raise the debt ceiling are emeveryone inning. the senate is working to a deal to re-open the government but only until january 15. the plan would also avoid a default by extending the nation's credit limit but only until february 7. here is the key: no major changes to the health care law. conservatives in the house of representatives are not happy with the last point so republicans are tr

you are citing as i'm sure you know a greenfield second law of politics.e way. but the law is the danger to anyone in power is what we used baseball games i used to play in, we were in a jewish neighborhood, every play ended in an argument and they ended when somebody said your old man says so. that's the biggest danger to almost any political figure is when your own man says so. the obama administration is in a political position where they could not possibly have asked for a delay even if it was substantively justified because it would have given the other guy a break. now you've got, as you point out, ten democratic senators calling for it. it's very hard for the obama white house to say this is all politics because it's their man saying it. and i think as we get down the road, if more senators and more public policy people who support the idea look at this particular program as matt says, a few months down the road, and shake their heads and say you know what, there are serious structural problems here, that sen essentially, i don't want to overstate t

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you have not touched on my part with greenfield, a puritan area what is that like now? >> again, you talk about a lot of the neighborhoods of detroit are unrecognizable. i don't know when you were last fact there. >> 15 years. >> my father for instance when he first moved to detroit from italy in the early '60s, he lifted a neighborhood very german and italian around a 7-mile. when i moved back i went back to the old neighborhood the house she lived in was gone the neighborhood was unrecognizable. the wingback that is part of the problem look at "the new york times" to read about these amazing developments in the downtown area the skyscrapers ever completely abandoned in 2009 have been picked up for a steel by developers in their moving people downtown but if you go to the neighborhood where you grew up and it is bad or worse than ever to. >> you mentioned earlier you were thinking about writing a novel about detroit. what would push to to do nonfiction that fictionalizes could not? >> it was an instance where the cliche of you cannot make this stuff up was true. i was

thank you very much. , younda thomas-greenfield mentioned $140 million going toward the economic growth activities, democracy activities. can you further detail where that is going? and who is administering that? go ahead. i think you mentioned the figure 140 million, right? >> that was going to our efforts of theort the capacity somali national army and supporting training for that but also building democratic institutions that are being working with usaid. wasfigure i referred to directly to our efforts with the army. >> ok. can you further detail the activities or growth activities? millionve about a $64 program for 2011 and 2012. i am sorry, 2012 and 2013. some of the activities to help set up the constitution, to support the move toward election. somalicludes work in with those governments to continue to support the very important advances they have already made on democratic approaches is and accountability and to align their policy with the central government and includes a lot of the work on setting up the independent election commission and the electoral mechanics to make the g

thomas, linda thomas greenfield.it is my understanding that most of the work is being done by private contract. is this true? >> we do have private contractors assisting us in somalia. that we are using a mixture of that as well as direct support to our amisom and other strategic partners such as the deal bins and we also work very closely with amisom and have some amisom support their. >> does that mean that we have american troops in somalia? >> no, sir, we do not have troops working with the somalia government and we do work with the somali national military outside of somalia and doing training, and we also occasionally send people into do training with them as well. >> how do you maintain oversight of what these contracts are doing, these contractors are what they are doing, if there is no american military there? >> we do send people in on a regular basis to monitor when we are able to travel when security allows us to travel inside and that is part of the issue that we have. we're not able to travel on a regul

kennedy an alternate history jeff greenfield sort of studied what would have happened if jfk survived the columnist joining us from new york. jeff, we appreciate your time. give usa sense, if you can. this book is about alternate history, obviously something that could never have happened. why write about the hypothetical and how challenging is that? >> because it could well have happened. that's the point of this and other exercises we have done. that small twist of fate came close to changing history dramatically. john f. kennedy survived the pacific, almost killed by suicide bomber in 1950, almost lost presidential election. if you look at dallas 50 years ago november, if the rain hadn't stopped, sun come out, bubble top on the car, much more likely john f. kennedy would have survived assassination attempt and stayed as president another year and probably another five years. that was why. >> give us a sense of what was unique about jfk to explore the life he lived. you talk about his experience surviving a suicide bombing scarlett fever, what other things struck you about his life.

rich greenfield, live on the phone with us hire as our own herb greenberg. welcome. good to talk to you. how high is the bar tonight? >> obviously expectations have gone up a lot over the course of last several months. i think even when you look at what kind of traditional cons t consens consensus, i think investors have take than and believe the company's going to be exceeding expectations not just q3 but q4 and into '14, the bar's moved up notably whether it's the success in the original programming or even the success overseas or devices like chrome cast that have helped netflix along. >> you downgraded the stock early september. but even you had a hard time finding any negatives, right? positives take up half of the first page. >> look, it's very clear why they're doing as well as they are. the whole industry, i mean this broadly, when you think about all of the different aspects of the media industry, whether it's content creators, whether it's the distributor, everyone has shifted from a foe or concerned about the risk that netflix posed to them, to everybody i

is thomas greenfield, in somalia, it is my understanding that most of the work is being done by privateontractors, is that true? >> we do have private contractors assisting us in somalia and we are using a mixture of that as well as direct support to the amisom and the other strategic partners such as the ethiopians and we also work very closely with after after calm and have some support th afte. is this including the american troops? >> we do have an advisor working with a smaller government. and we also work with their military government doing training. and we sent people to do training with them. >> how do you maintain oversight with what these contracts are doing it there is no american military in somalia? >> we do send them in to monitor the somalis when we are able to travel when it allows us to travel inside. but when we are able to travel, we are able to do that and we also work and monitor them through our operations and in nairobi as well. >> these contractors are often operating in what is effectively a combat zone. would you agree? >> occasionally it is a combat zone. >>

miss thomas, linda thomas greenfield, in somalia, it's my understanding that most of the work is being done by private contractors. is that true? >> we do have private contractors assisting us in smolt ya. we're using a mixture of that as well as direct support to our amazon and other strategic partners such as the ethiopian. we also work very, very closely with africa and have some of a come support there. >> does it mean you have american troops troops in somalia? >> no , sir, we do not have troops. we have an adviser work with the somali government. we work with the somali national military outside of somalia in doing training. and we also occasionally send people in to do training with them. >> now you maintain oversight of what the contractors are doing if there is no american military there? >> we send people in on a regular basis to monitor when we're able to travel when security allows us to travel inside. that's part of the issue we are. we're not able to travel on a regular basis. when we are able to travel we are able to do that kind of monitoring. we also work and monitor t

>> thomas greenfield. you mention $140 million go into this economic growth activity and democracy activities. can you give us further detail where that is going? and who is administering back? >> go ahead. >> okay. >> you mention 140 million. is that correct? >> that was going to our efforts to support the capacity of the somali national army and supporting training for that and also building a democratic institution that is being worked with usaid. but what i directly referred to was direct efforts with this. >> to further detail this with economic growth activities. >> yes, we have about a 64 million-dollar program for 21 in 2012. and that is working with some of the activities that are detailed to help set up the constitution to support the move towards elections and that also includes work with those governments to continue to support the very important advances that they have already made on the democratic approaches and transparency and accountability is an aligning them with the federal government

that father is journalist carl terrell greenfield. him on. he's also the author of seven books, most recently the novel. joins me live now from california. carl, good to see you. >> hi there. >> your first night's homework assignment consistent consisted following, 11 algebra equations, 79 pages of angela's ashes and find three important and powerful quotes from the 79 pages and then had to write a one or two-sentence analysis of its significance and study for the next day's earth science test as well. again, first night, took you somewhere between three and five hours according to the article. how did it go? >> well, that was what i was trying to figure out. like many parents, i'd noticed how much homework my daughter was doing every night. often two to five hours a night and it was cutting into family time and extracurricular time, so i thought i'd sit down and actually do her homework for a week along side her. i didn't do her homework for her. and what i was trying to figure out is this is taking up such a big part of her time and

if identity if kennedy lived," jeff greenfield, host of pbs' requested neat to know" presents his thoughts on how history might have changed if president john f. kennedy had not been assassinated. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the nors in the near future -- authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> booktv continues here on c-span2 with john lott who argues that partisan politicians don't like to nominate smart judges because they're afraid that smart judges have the ability to think independently and influence other judges. he says that judges who graduated in the top 10% of their law classes go through a much longer confirmation process than judges who don't. this is a little over an hour. >> well, thanks very much for having me again here. it's always nice to get back to southern california. i have to say i can't take credit for having taught at a couple of those schools, but i had research positions at them. so how did i get started on book? well, i think we all have been concerned by how contentious and vicious the con pair mission

joining us now is rich greenfield. and hosts with the company's conference call last night.king through on netflix, it was the subscriber growth that even beat raised expectations. that was pretty phenomenal. >> i don't think it was the u.s. subscriber growth. i think what's really happening now, you've got netflix is now larger than hbo domestically with 31 million subscribers, looks like 33 million plus by the end of this calendar year. but the real issue here and what has investors excited and i think why the premarket trading, becky is the way you talked about is the excitement over international. and international, not so much even where they came in -- did they come in better? yeah, some of that due to some discounting they did latin america. but i think the real excitement is about 2014. during the video call that we did, management talked about getting into some of the large broad band markets. you know, they're only in three of the top ten u.s. broad band subscriber markets worldwide right now. the u.s., uk and brazil. they're not in big markets like france, germany

rich greenfield updated it. i don't mean it be spiteful. i'm saying when you see someone who didn't like the stock at 25 finally capitulate, maybe it's a sign it's moving too far too fast. so charitable trust has taken some off the table. >> when you say "some" -- >> a third. you have to play with the house's money. you got to play with the house's money if you have it. i refer to carl icahn, knenetfl. >> and i'm an old guy who just says -- >> not that old. >> i don't know, david. old enough -- >> what's on "mad" tonight? >> we have buffalo wild wings, a very hot stock. sally smith will be on. wing prices coming down. nick akins. everything is about coal versus nat gas and the epa. and then david wenner, it's been one of the biggest winners in the packaged web segment. it's been a quiet paercolateor, have to find out how this is going. >> hopefully by the time "mad" is on this will be over. >> and the revelation of verizon being part of this i'm going to look into because i've been a big supporter of verizon for a long time. >> we'll be bac

a deep dive with author and political buddy jeff greenfield. >>> good morning and happy friday from washingtonway, a little hat tip to george will on digging up the will rogers quote this morning. let's get right to my first reads of the morning. right now it's as if each political

i grew up in greenfield, sheraton area, went to cooley high. i'm curious, what is that like al? >> again, you are talking about a lot of the neighborhood in detroit are sort of unrecognizable. i don't know when you were last back there. >> 15 years >> yeah, so my father for instance when he first moved to detroit from italy and i just early 60s, he lives in the neighborhood that was very german italian. come on seven-mile crash it. one of the things i did when i moved back was dry back to the old neighborhood with him. the house he lived in was gone. the neighborhood was completely unrecognizable. again, going back to what i said earlier, that's part of the problem. you can look at "the new york times" and read about these amazing developments happening in the downtown area. a lot of the skyscrapers completely abandoned when i moved back in 2900 pics to buy developers like dan gilbert of quicken loans and mike kelley chew on little caesars and then moving people downtown. it's really exciting. but she got a neighborhood you corrupt or where my father grew up and it's as bad or w