the house of cards, they had created six different trailers which could be used to promote the sort of thing. you like this sort of thing so let me highlight this part of house of cards. right there you can see having access to this detailed user information, and having the skills and willingness to use the data, you would think that provides them an advantage and you can see where the industry is going. >> prof., what is a comcast or cox have that data through their set-top box as well? they know if someone is watching c-span or a football game or renting a certain series. >> so some of that is possible. for nbc or cbs, i think that data would be hard to get. they would know that my show was watched by 18 - 40-year-old during this prime time, but most of the television industry has sort of been driven by the standardize ratings like a nielsen rating which are based on very aggregate into sticks. that's how your revenues are generated. that's how everybody standardizes against. beyond having the data which i think some of the studios obviously don't have, i don't know how detailed they

awfully excited about my next guest, is he a golden globe nominated actor known for the strain and house of cards if you new film, gold. please welcome corey stoll. (applause) >> stephen: nice to meet you. nice to meet you, never met you before. but are you one of my favorite actors. not just for house of cards or antman but yeah, you are also hilarious as earnest hemmingway in midnight in paris. you can do it all. you are a native new yorker, right. >> i am, yeah. >> stephen: did you grow up in the city? in manhattan or. >> yeah, upper west side. >> stephen: i don't know many people who grew up in manhattan. what was it like as a kid, what year, '70s. >> yeah, 7 0see, 80z. >> stephen: it was a rough time. >> it was not the dignified version that we have right now. >> stephen: uh-huh. now are you not running. >> there was no m & m store. >> stephen: so were your parents, were you a free range kid, would you parents let you roam around the city? >> yeah, i was-- i was a really big kid. like i was the kind of kid-- . >> stephen: what do you mean? >> people thought i was a couple years older. like y

family enlisted the help of defense attorney maddox kilgore and his team. >> the entire case was a house of cardsthat, despite public sentiment, and despite the bravado of the state and the charges, we felt extremely confident that that house of cards was going to collapse in trial. >> reporter: in october, 2016, more than two years after the death of his son, ross harris went on trial for murder. >> death. deception. and a double life. >> reporter: chuck boring, the lead prosecutor, told the jury why ross' story had never added up. that chick-fil-a video showed cooper wide awake. that drive that was too short to forget a toddler. the car seat was just inches behind ross. and at ross' office there was a photo of cooper and a gift from cooper. he even sent a text to leanna in the afternoon about cooper. when you getting my buddy, it said. none of that jogged his memory? >> there was just cue after cue after cue that if he had actually forgotten would have triggered something. >> reporter: and then the prosecution showed what it believed was powerful evidence that ross had to have known that cooper

his casinos, which were literal houses of cards. ation we do have so far includes some worrisome names. for example, there's one of trump's reported candidates for national security adviser, retired lieutenant general michael flynn, who was forced out of the obama administration and stirred controversy in february when he tweeted, quote, "fear of muslims is rational." when you write the word "rational" in all caps, it disproves itself. [ laughter ] it's like when you scream in a fight, "i'm totally calm right now. you're the one who's not calm!" [ light laughter ] in fact, several of the names being floated for trump's cabinet sent disturbing signals about his positions on civil liberties. for example, one of the names floated for secretary of defense is arkansas senator tom cotton. cotton has said he agrees with trump's proposal to bring back torture techniques like waterboarding, which are currently illegal under both u.s. and international law. >> do you agree with him that torture works and waterboarding and much worse would be a

of the obama presidency. what's ahead for the man and his family. >>> and white house drama of a different kind. the creepy teaser for the new season of "house of cardsad. diane macedo has that story. on of "house of cards" still ahead. diane macedo has that story. opioid-induced constipation. prescription opioids helped my chronic knee pain, but left me constipated. finally, i let it out. told my doctor. he said movantik may help me go more often. don't take movantik if you have or had a bowel blockage. serious side effects include opioid withdrawal, severe stomach pain, severe diarrhea, and stomach or intestinal tears. tell your doctor about side effects and medicines you take. movantik may interact with them causing side effects. have your movantik moment. talk to your doctor about opioid-induced constipation. moto. it's time to re-imagine the smart phone. snap on a speaker. a projector. a camera that actually zooms. get excited world. the moto z with motomods. get 50% off on moto z droid. as women, we need to take time to be active. that's what's so amazing about poise® impressa. i love the fact that it has three sizes. it isn't just one, because

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♪ show me house of cards. ent. on xfinity x1. anything with a screen is a tv. stream 130 live channels. plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. you can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. download the xfinity tv app today. trend did not take a look at the latest in the world of sports. frenemies lebron james and james the second time this season. a big first quarter spots up from way beyond and history. up seven after one. jimmy buffett takes over for the bulls fourth quarter bases on three pointer from the wing. he scores 20 for the night. bulls 11 a 6-94. oklahoma city russell westbrook ran into trouble last night in a game against the hornets. first quarter is called a timeout. westbrook throws the ball and it hits the official in the head. my script looks to be embarrassed at first but he becomes upset when it's issued a technical foul. he says it was an accident, but the rest still assessed a penalty. westbrook apologiz

♪ show me house of cards. etflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. ♪ caroline: welcome back to "the best of bloomberg technology." i am caroline hyde. this year's $85 billion deal between time warner and at&t has many wondering if mergers like this will be the new normal in 017. network owners are under growing pressures they continue to lose customers to online services like netflix. so has cable tv reached a tipping point? we put the question to bloomberg editor at large cory johnson and gerry smith, bloomberg news media reporter. gerry: you think about the television industry, it is like a slowly melting ice cube. there are still about 98 million people in the u.s. that subscribe to pay television, but it loses a couple million subscribers each year. and eventually, you know, media companies look around and say this is not an industry that is growing anymore. maybe we need to partner up and find someone, whether it is another distributor, or do a merger with another media comp

show me house of cards. lly, you can now find all of netflix in the same place as all your other entertainmentia's democratic governor jerry brown says his state will not spend more on low income housing because they're too expensive to build, thanks in part to too many costly regulations. mike, isn't this proof that government red tape hurts the poor as well as the rich? >> you're darned right, it is, david. the problem is you have an elite group of people in politics making rules for a vast majority of people when they know nothing about what it's like to start a business. so they put in rules and regulations. it stifles economic growth, and that's what hurts revenues coming from businesses that would go to the government. david: rich, you're in california, a lot of the one size fits all rules there, apparently they don't? >> california has 45 million people. the world wants to live here. we've generated companies like google, facebook, apple, et cetera, et cetera, plus the entertainment industry. that kind of prosperity drives up prices, so, i think it more has to do with market demand than

♪ show me house of cards. of netflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. gary: donald trump not in office yet the companies responding to the rhetoric. melissa: just this week for canceling plans for a $1.6 billion plant in mexico is going to invest $700 billion into michigan factory instead. a president-elect also ripping into gm and toyota for building auto south of the border threatening a large border tax to trump never even mentioned black & decker but preemptively it announced its moving more jobs inside the u.s.. gary: to our "fox business" all-stars charlie gaster reno and charles gastonia. reporter donald trump's threats on the top mind boardrooms and investors. is it? the board people have said they have actually had more directors meetings? >> there's always externalities that tankers talk about and they talk about currency flows and they talk about what is going on with regulation. now from what i understand they are talking about trump and talking about if there is an

♪ show me house of cards. etflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. anything with a screen is a tv. stream 130 live channels, plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. you can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. download the xfinity tv app today. gary: drug stocks took a big hit this week and this is why. >> the drug industry has been disastrous. they supply our drugs but they don't make them here to a large extent. and the other thing wev have to do is create new bidding procedures for the brug industry because they are getting away with murder, pharma has a lot of lobbies and a lot of power and there is very little bidding on drugs. we are the largest buyer of drugs in the world and yet we don't bid properly. we are going to start bidding and save billions of dollars over a period of time. trish: if you were told that words came out of the mouth of bernie sanders, it would seem believable, righ

♪ show me house of cards. all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. dagen: tried to influence our election but did not target voluntarily tallying. still secretary still declaring our election infrastructure as critical. that means the federal government can do more to help protect polling places, vote tabulation, and voting machines. gary, you say that scares you more. >> exactly. it's one more example of impending government overreach. just like we talked about last segment. government neither submitted own health care. neither party or the federal government. we're composed of 50 states. each of the states get to do what they and want what they choose. whether it's chad reading or paper punch or optical character. look, once the government comes in and says, hey, remember reagan, the famous words, we're here from the government, we want to help. pretty soon it will be a national election. that's not what the constitution and what we're set up to do. dagen: james clapper director of national intelligence s

♪ show me house of cards. lace as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. anything with a screen is a tv. stream 130 live channels, plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. you can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. download the xfinity tv app today. . >> the department of justice's inspector general now reviewing how both the fbi and department of justice handled parts of the clinton e-mail probe. but looking at the headlines, you would think it's only the fbi under the microscopic. john, you say it's more proof of media bias. >> absolutely. they need escape goat. these guys were wrong. they're wrong about the polls. they're wrong about who is going to be president. they were wrong about everything. and think so sports exist because them. instead they'll be around. they look down with a condescension of the very people who read and listen to the news that they're reporting and paid good. america's happy. these guys hav

♪ show me house of cards. ix in the same place as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. anything with a screen is a tv. stream 130 live channels, plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. you can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. download the xfinity tv app today. i'll see you at 4 p.m. eastern with laura engingle. back to cashin' in >> on december 30th, mr. eric bolling a fox news commentator began a campaign to have the students' winning artwork removed. that blatant censorship is media manipulation and exacerbated by one of my colleagues from california, congressman duncan hart took it upon himself to remove the painting without any authority from the architect of the capitol to do so. eric: well, thanks for giving me the credit, congressman. mr. clay is correct, i did point out this disgraceful painting of cops depicted as pigs, especially because it was put up in our u.s. capitol and then things kind of hit the f

we're going bring to the table someone you all know from house of cards and the hunger games. mahershala ali. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> good to see you. >> welcome back. so happy to see you again. you're having a -- quite a year. i hear some very exciting personal news. >> yeah. >> you and your wife are expecting a byby, congratulations. >> yes. >> congratulations. >> yeah, so um, i'm ready to be real tired. yeah. >> well done. >> we're excited. >> there's a lot of celebrating going on because you're up for a golden globe for "moonlight." and you just won a critic's choice for the role as well. you said when you were filming it you knew it was something special. >> oh, yeah. from the first time i read the script. the first time i read it, i think everyone involved will tell you they got choked up and just really connected to the story. >> it's connecting with audiences, too. >> it's a special -- >> why do you think audiences have embraced it? >> i think a lot of people feel like they're on the fringes right now. a little bit outside and away from center. not necessarily rep

netflix says it's thanks to original programming which started with house of cards back in 2013. >>> a live look at wall street right now. the dow is down 84 points. the market opened up slightly lower today in a holding pattern ahead of tomorrow's inauguration. investors are waiting for details about which economic policies president-elect donald trump will tackle first. >>> time now for a check of our weather with julie watts in for roberta. >> we are tracking rain on hi- def doppler but not widespread rain this midday. let's go ahead and take a look at where we are seeing rainfall in the bay area this morning. we have an impressive cell right now over moraga near saint mary's there. you can see just to the east of skyline boulevard there at canyon road getting moderate rainfall at this hour and then of course up to the high country we have plenty of rainfall throughout the sacramento valley up the west slope of the sierra and snow this midday still along the sierra that winter storm warning has been extended now through monday. so through all of our storms. in fact, we are looking

♪ show me house of cards. y, you can now find all of netflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. ♪ david: so, what did your family think? did they say that there's something wrong with this young man. he just wants to do computers? bill: it was considered a little strange. david: have you thought how much better your life would be if you got your harvard degree? bill: i am a weird dropout, because i take college courses all the time. david: what about steve jobs in those days? what was your relationship with him? bill: we were both there at the very beginning. david: you are the wealthiest man in the world -- is that more of a burden than a pleasure, to be the wealthiest men in the world? >> would you fix your tie, please? david: people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed. let's leave it this way. all right. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of an interviewer even though i have a day

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plot twists involving sex allegations and potential blackmail that even the tv series "house of cards" might balk at. but this is reality, not a show. the first episode of trump the presidency airs in one week's time. at trump tower today, he was commending his nominees, many of whom have been fiercely critical this week of russia. president-elect trump: i want them all to be themselves. nick: before dawn came a gale force twitter storm. nick: footage has come to light of christopher steele, the former mi6 officer who produced the dossier, at an event in cambridge university. he is now in hiding, apparently fearing for his life. former colleagues defended his professionalism. >> what he has reported is something he believes. he recognizes this is raw intelligence and it needs validation and it needs further exploration. nick: on capitol hill today, lawmakers received a behind-closed-doors briefing on the unverified dossier and russia's alleged interference into the presidential election. many left demanding more answers. >> the american people are owed the truth and there's a great de

♪ show me house of cards. etflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. anything with a screen is a tv. stream 130 live channels. plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. you can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. download the xfinity tv app today. >>> it's a bird, it's a plane. it's a flying warehouse. news leaking this week amazon is landed a patent for a blimp size fulfillment center 45,000 feet in the air. and it could act as a launching pad for drone deliveries. jonas, not a good idea? >> you know, sometimes i think when we all watch "blade runner" and we're scared of what the future will look like, jeff bezos is like i really like some of the ideas i see here and that's going to be me with the fake -- they had ads on blimps floating around during the super bowl delivering beer to people because they need it that instant. what kind of world is that going to be? it is going to be this horrible

♪ show me house of cards. etflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. >>> privatizing the v.a. to help our vets? the incoming trump administration considering allowing veterans to bypass the government run v.a. health system if they want to, getting care directly from private doctors or hospitals. john, you say this is the best way to help our veterans. let me just be specific about how much we're paying for it. it's the largest civilian agency in our government. about 370,000 employees, a budget of nearly $164 billion a year. that's big. >> yeah, why not privatize the v.a. any time you have the profit motive working over anything you get a better outcome. but i would just add why not abolish it? we don't need a v.a. to get health care to our precious vets anymore than we need a social security administration to make sure that people can retire normally. just get rid of it. >> bill, trump is saying something in the middle. he is not saying either total privatization or totally get r

plot twists involving sex allegations and potential russian blackmail that even the tv series house of cardslk at. but this is reality, not a show, and the first episode of trump the presidency airs in just one week's time. at trump tower, he has been commending his nominees, many of whom who have been fiercely critical this week of russia. i could have said do this, do that, i don't want to do that. i want them to be themselves. before dawn came a gale—force twitter storm: footage has emerged of christopher steele, the former mi6 officer who produced the dossier at an event at cambridge university. he is now in hiding, apparently fearing for his life. former colleagues defended his professionalism. it is certain that what he has reported is something he believes. he recognises that this is raw intelligence that needs validation and it needs further exploration. on capitol hill today, lawmakers received a behind—closed—doors briefing on the unverified dossier and the alleged interference of russia in the presidential election. many left demanding more answers. the american people are owed th

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competitors like hulu, amazon and los gatos based netflix cornering the market with hit shows like house of cards and orange is the new black? apple does have its work cut out for them. >> this is going to be a big year for us. >> reporter: analysts say the iphonemaker does have a built in audiences of 20 million paid subscribers with its apple music app. apple plans to bundle original contact with its music streaming service. the wall street journal says apple hopes to debut its first original series by the end of the year. apple has not publicly comments. in the newsroom cate cauguiran, kpix5. >>> take a look at this, a blanket of snow in the bay area. here's a look at the lick observatory on mount hamilton, all lanes closed but are expected to be back open at noon tomorrow. >>> radar is clear in mount hamilton, the entire bay area, first time in a long time we are rain free. snowpack looks really good. it was below 100% this time last week. it's up 65% in a week, had to be a snowy week, it was. central sierra 162% of average, the south sierra 191%, snowpack and reservoir is looking good, why t

♪ show me house of cards. netflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. yousef: welcome back to "best of bloomberg markets: middle east." have recruited price waterhouse to help them cancel. what's on the chopping block and why. >> we are expecting the government to look at projects. the first thing that will look at whether this project has strategic interest that is essential for saudi arabia's economy. howsecond thing probably far along these projects are in terms of institution. and what kind of return they are expected to generate once completed. as one advisor said to me, it'll be something to weigh, whether to build a metro system in something that generates profit from day one or something that may worker may not. just revisiting all of the contracts, all of the spending. choosing now, the first couple of weeks of january, to move ahead with another major significant step forward? >> it is truly something they have been working on all along. last year they did this project m

♪ show me house of cards. etflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. >> welcome back. steph curry and the golden state warriors the long distance again rounded the detroit pistons. the warriors nailed 15 three-pointers. curry, kevin durant and clay thompson accounted for 72 points. bo jackson who became an all-star in baseball and football tells usa today he never would've played football if he had known about the head injury risk. the game has become so violent he won't allow his children to play it. he was a sports legend by winning the heisman award and played with the oakland raiders in baseball with the kansas city royals. freezing rain and ice causing major problems across central u.s. janice mead is life in the fox weather center. look at this. >> i'm very concerned for the central u.s. a crippling devastating-this -- ice storm. we have the gulf of mexico moisture overwriting that cold air coming through. right now were starting to get all of the ingredients here. the worst

you didn't think "house of cards" would let donald trump have all of the fun on inauguration day.rwood hates it when other politicians steal his thunder. as the nation prepared for the donald trump inauguration, netflix dropped a teaser for the presidential drama's upcoming fifth season. the clip shows an upside down u.s. flag waving in the wind while children recite the pledge of allegiance and ends with a season five premiere date. kevin spacey and robin by the way, the show tweeted the video out adding the caption, we make the terror. netflix retweeted that saying. we couldn't possibly come. >> my goodness. too late for me to catch up? >> no. >> marathon them all at once. >> we'll just take a day. >> put the sunshine behind. >> i did the crowns and now time for this one. >> we can flip-flop. >> you got four seasons, though. >> four seasons to do it. >> thank you. >>> up next, the rough draft of history. the most memorable images from the inauguration of president trump. we're back in a moment, but, first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> no matter which side of the political aisle y

it looks like the house of card is coming apart on the press side. >> i asked sean spicer about that.ou can criticize cnn's decision. i wasn't comfortable with it. but i didn't do it. buzzfeed didn't put the allegations out there. ben smith doingedly defending his decision to go ahead with the story. here he is with nbc's chuck todd. >> i know this was not your intent. but you just published fake news. >> we published a dossier. >> why is that an unfair description? >> i think people like to throw fake news around with stories they don't like. howie: what do you make of ben smith's argument that elites all knew by the and we are just sharing it with the masses. >> i think what ben smith did was make a business decision. i know ben smith, i like him, he's a good journalist an get a lot of information. buzzfeed has had quite a lot of access to president obama. a bus feed video they did of president obama. howie: when president obama gave his farewell speech there were a bunch of tweets from buzzfeed political staffers saying i can't stop crying. i'm so sad. >> their journalists have don

step to take before we can project strength and improve relationships we need to get our own house of cards. he needs to rally national security team together and get everybody on the same page. >> how does he do that were not everyone is on the same page when it comes to dealing with vladimir putin, and another group says this is not the way, got to do it this way. >> also a divide between the political appointees, working with him through the nomination process and civil servants who use the national security council, the white house and other offices get them all together. the best way to do that is to foster communication. make sure his agenda is crystal clear, 2 point out this is what the obama administration wanted to do, now we are pivoting and also make sure everybody knows their new roles and responsibilities, these two things are key to getting policy right. he wants to get on board with his agenda and help execute it around the globe, you have to be crystal clear about what their objectives are. heitkamp heather: an area where people don't agree what he should do with nato. >> my

plot twists involving sex allegations and potential russian blackmail that even the tv series house of cardslk at. but this is reality, not a show, and the first episode of trump the presidency airs in just one week's time. for now, donald trump mainly delivers his lines on twitter. he's a 140 character actor. i could have said do this and say that. i did not. isaid i could have said do this and say that. i did not. i said the yourselves. he's a 140 character actor. it now turns out that the phoney allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a failed spy afraid of being sued. "totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives. both democrats and republicans. fake news. russia says nothing exists." footage has emerged of christopher steele, the former m16 officer who produced the dossier at an event at cambridge university. he is now in hiding, apparently fearing for his life. former colleagues defended his professionalism. it is certain that what he has reported is something he believes. he recognises that this is raw intelligence that needs validation and it

plot twists involving sex allegations and potential russian blackmail that even the tv series house of cardsity, not a show, and the first episode of trump the presidency airs in just one week's time. for now, donald trump mainly delivers his lines on twitter. he's a 140 character actor. it now turns out that the phoney allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a failed spy afraid of being sued. totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives. both democrats and republicans. fake news. russia says nothing exist. probably released by intelligence even knowing there is no proof and never will be. my people will have a full report on hacking within 90 days. 0n capitol hill today, lawmakers received a behind closed doors briefing on the unverified dossier and russia's alleged interference in the presidential election. and many are left demanding more answers. the american people are owed the truth and there is a great deal of evidence to say this is an issue of high interest to the american people, the strength, the integrity of our own democracy. and there i

plot twists involving sex allegations and potential russian blackmail that even the tv series house of cardsy, not a show, and the first episode of trump, the presidency, airs injust one week's time. at trump tower today, he was commending his nominees, many of whom have been fiercely critical this week of russia. i could have said, do this, say that. i don't want that. i want them all to be themselves. before dawn came a gale force twitter storm. it turns out the phoney allegations against me were put out by my political allegations, totally made up political allegations, totally made u p fa cts political allegations, totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both democrats and republicans. russia says nothing exists. footage has come to light of christopher steele, the former mi6 officer who produced the dossier, at an event at cambridge university. he is now in hiding, apparently fearing for his life. former colleagues have defended his professionalism. it is certain that what he has reported is something that he believes. he recognises that this is raw intelligence and nee

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