this makes me want to ask sam stein about that reporting in the "huffington post".nt to ask sam stein about that. sam, thanks very much for being here. it's great to have you. >> thanks, rachel. appreciate it. >> so in the way that i summarized that and now what mel watt has said, is that pretty much the lay of the land? did i explain what you've got? >> perfectly, yes. >> okay. what can you tell us if anything about if person who you say told congressman watt about these allegations about denny lass territory? obviously, congressman watt says it wasn't an intermediary and it was somebody who he believes was shopping limb a rumor. what can you tell us about that? >> i first stand by the description of the conversation as an intermediary. someone who knew the victim of the alleged abuse, having then gone to speaker hastert with an account of what had happened, to mr. watt, obviously. now, i don't know if the watt office is quibbling with the word "intermeetary," but it seems to me anyone who had have knowledge of this alleged abuse would have to be relatively close t

so one thing we need to ask you about is the future of ariana huffington and "huffington post."working without a contract and may or may not be happy about this transaction and may or may not have been trying to sell the company or at least the brand and that particular business separately. >> sure. just at a larger level, "the huffington post" is an important asset for the company. the first six years it got 20 or 30 million users. it's now over 200 million consumers. i think ariana is a great entrepreneur and i think the turbo charges of "huffington post" is exciting. we've worked closely with her for four years. we've spent a lot of time on the deal in terms of working with verizon but also where the deal is going to go. i think arianna has a relationship with us and with the company which i think will be ongoing for a long period of time. >> so a year or two if you came back arianna would be -- "the huffington post" would still have a huffington at its helm. >> yeah. the construct has been how do we grow globally how do we have arianna as a huge leader in force. she really w

joining me now with some insight is the huffington post's senior media editor gabriel arana. gabriel, by all accounts, workers were really happy at gawker media generally, so why gawker? why now? >> so when you talk to workers the purported reason for organizing bundt because they were upset with management. they weren't unhappy. it's because they wanted more transparency in the way things like salaries are decided, things like bonuses are decided. right now those things are subject to individual negotiations, and nobody sort of knows what the rules are for everybody. and so, the goal was to bring more transparency to that process. and then also, as the industry is maturing, people want security. people want protection into the future. and gawker might be a great place to work now, but nobody knows what future holds, what sort of economic challenges, structural changes the company gl through. so it's really, for the future, for transparency, and then for stability. glal i'mglal i'm wondering how the idea of unions will mesh with the free-wheeling spirit of the internet. >> i

arianna huffington signed a four-year contract to remain president and editor-in-chief of the huffington post. the announcement ends the uncertainty surrounding her future after the website was acquired by verizon. scarlet: on the subject of mergers and acquisition, deal making beats records setback in 2007 and the boom is poised to continue through 2017. that's according to johnson skate. here is earlier. investment cycles are normally seven or eight years. essentially we are looking at an expansion that could be as long as nine years. i actually think you are going to see a record amount of m&a activity beyond 2007 this year and next year, and potentially the year after. he named telecommunications, health care, and energy as the sectors most like to see more deals. storms severe solar slammed into the earth yesterday afternoon that increased the chances of fluctuations in the power grid and gps. polaro pushed shimmering auroras to places where more people can possibly see them. federal forecasters said the northern lights, the aurora borealis may be able be seen tonight as far as iowa

meanwhile, area on huffington has signed a contract to remain editor-in-chief at the huffington post.s ends the uncertainty surrounding her future after the website was acquired by verizon. those are your top stories. the greek prime minister is facing the first signs of dissent within his own party. this comes over his latest land two and a five-month standoff with creditors. the former greek prime ministers aboutto bloomberg earlier his experience and what to expect. and i had tok over ask for bailout, there was widespread opposition from the other parties in the opposition. i had to move things alone. today, there is a huge spectrum from right to left which the stewards of this adjustment program, when this government decides if they do finally agree on an adjustment program, we will have seen the whole of the political spectrum having dealt with this crisis in a similar manner. i think there will be a widespread consensus beyond the confines of the government's party. the prime minister himself will have to put his full weight , but ithe agreement think he can do that. : what can

meanwhile, arianna huffington has signed a contract to remain president and editor in chief of the huffingtonost. the announcement ends the uncertainty surrounding her future after the website was acquired by verizon. continueis poised to all the way through 2017 according to blackstone director, john susa-- studinszki. the: we're looking at expansion that could be longer than nine years. you're going to see a record amount of activity this year and next year and potentially the year after. he named telecommunications, health care, and energy sectors most likely to see even more deals. there is a sign that demands for american-made goods is rising. nonmilitary goods were up by 4/10 of 1%. orders for all durable goods a drop in theng volatile aircraft quality. pizza kitchen is a eliminating artificial isitives -- papa john's eliminating artificial additives. those are your top stories. i have never been to papa john's. pimm: i'm not going to save you there. this is a trend, chipotle, ra, california pizza kitchen. restaurants are responding. olivia: how do you make trix without artificial color

the "huffington post" on the watch. probably can't see it. >> it's tiny. >> that's trending. so, basically i like it. i've been using it for a week or so. here's what apple does a great job of i think. apple does a really good job of thinking about the rule of seven. they human beings over time want cure rated information devices. >> they're dwifing you a -- >> they do a great job. >> you were talking about taking your iphone 6 and becoming the broadcasting network. how do they play? they have veered away from content. they're very into their devices. are they going to become the essentially the cable company eventually? >> i think it's going to be a massive fight for content and services. i think this is my prediction. i've said it publicly before. i think devices and networks have the potential to get massively xhod

that includes the huffington post and buzz feed said there are not two sides to this issue. for 40% of the country there are two sides. >> i think the media organization on the front page of "the new york times" what you make front page not only for readers tomorrow but for readers 50 years from now. i think that a lot of people making decisions can remember and are currently as we hit 50 years after civil rights are being embarrassed by the fact when you pull up front page of "the new york times" the day after mlk was killed the lead quote is from a segregationist. you have to understand both the journalism you're creating for your current audience and the journalism you create for history. maybe bull connor shouldn't be the lead quote in the story about mlk being assassinated. >> a great historical reference. >> it's a day to acknowledge the ruling itself. it's not the day to say -- >> when the supreme court rules on citizens united or something the media don't agree with you don't see this heavy focus on the proponents. >> you don't. i think what we're seeing is not all m

you read the huffington post every day. we love ariana huffington. she runs huffington post.f course part of aol was sold to verizon. so she now works for a phone company and if you read the story in today's new york fascinating to see what she is going to do with that company. >> what's going to happen to the huffington post. >> when verizon bought the company they wanted it for the ad forum. she had tried previously and had many talks to try to buy the company out. the huffington post out of aol with a valuation of close to a billion dollars. now it's unclear of whether she'll be able to take it out of verizon or verizon is going to make her stay there potentially against her will. uncheer what's going to happen and -- >> she no longer has a contract. so if she leaves could we have a huffington post without a huffington? that's what the story says. >> i hook at all of the headlines and i don't click on many of the stories to read them. all i need to know is people are being schooled and destroyed and kernen schools and everybody is -- and i read who supposedly got schooled

arianna huffington has signed a four-year contract to remain editor in chief of the huffington post.he uncertainty surrounding her future after the website was surround -- acquired by verizon. jordan spieth a gay history pretty much all over the place. the youngest u.s. open winner since 1993. because of his when sunday a chamber's. only the six call for in the modern era to win the first two majors of the year, the masters and u.s. open. ,e joined us from dallas, texas to talk about his unusual victory. lost theught i had tournament. hole, i wasast the glad that i had a chance to go to the playoffs in the day. when the next one missed, it was a little bit delayed from the crowd reaction. on 17 i did the same thing but i had another whole to make up for it. he just ran out. tournament is big -- open in element two weeks. the company filing for an ipo. the largest operator of fitness centers in the u.s. with almost 1000 locations and more than 7 million members. that is a look at the top stories at this hour. coming up in the bloomberg market day, offering something new on its menu to

verizon cfo says his company doesn't want to sell the huffington post. or he says buy dish network.hat's lucky for t-mobile. we'll see where those two go and those comments coming at a conference yesterday. verizon agrees to buy aol for $4.4 billion but lots of questions about that brand in particular and the content and then on the other side the future of ariana huffington's participation. >> i thought after that deal got announced it was almost like of course they're going to sell the huffington post. tim armstrong was filling in that morning and he said the biggest winner on this is going to be the huffington post and later it looked like they were for sale. >> i think you can write it down in stone that it's not going to get sold. >> what i don't know is where her head is or how much it matters where her head in is in all of this. the view was she was going to try to sell it and there was a period prior to the transaction with verizon where it was possible they would spin it out or sell to someone else. >> cfo. the ceo is the one that wanted to sell it. >> the question is wheth

how will it change the company known for websites like the huffington post? ♪ olivia: good afternoon. i'm olivia sterns. mark: and i'm mark crumpton. let's begin with the markets on this tuesday. investors are waiting to see if greece and its creditors can avoid default. all the major indices are in the red. let lower now by nasdaq, down eight points. the dow jones industrial unchanged. the s&p 500 is down about two points at 2120. gold is on the decline on this tuesday, right now gold futures down half a percent, trading it $1177. futures rising for a second day ahead of a government report that might show u.s. inventories fell for it week. oil was trading at $61.19 a barrel, up one and one third percent. on the bond market, yield a little changed. the 10 year yield up by two basis points, trading at 2.39%. it appears the u.s. treasury investors are focused on what's happening in greece. they are looking at the better-than-expected data on the housing market we got out this morning. sales of new u.s. homes rising to the highest level in seven years. this aft

now in a podcast interview, warren told huffington post that she says i fully understand this systemnd that's what they don't like about me. as one gained prominence of wall street's fiercest critics. and those are your top stories. fromur chief strategist oppenheimer is back with me, and we have industrials, tech, consumer discretionary, health care, and materials. i read materials and i say, what? why? of all of this, we are experiencing recovery in europe, we are seeing china increasing stimulus, we can expect that things will remain in the doldrums for materials, and curiously enough, materials is the fourth best sector of this year if we go top sector is health care, second is consumer discretionary, third-best theormer is technology, and fourth is materials, and beneath that on a year to date basis, all of the other sectors are performing under the benchmark of the s&p 500. we havee have -- alix: inflation that is relatively some dude and we could see a bounce back from the markets? we have seen some stabilization in terms of a rebound in energy, of a low of about $33 or $44. w

joining me now is ryan grim of the huffington post. a different path for a president this late in his second term. >> i think that's undoubtedly true. and you could throw into that the negotiations with iran over its nuclear program. >> correct. >> you know the ayatollah may have pushed back a little bit recently but often that's a sign that a deal is about to happen. up on capitol hill there's kind of a saying among reporters, that the moment that everything looks dead and all the cards look like they're piled on top of each other, that means they're going to get it a deal. if he can strike a deal with iran that can reshape global geopolitics. it could reshape the middle east. a lot of democrats opposed him on this trade deal. he managed to push it through. certainly a tactical victory, in terms of his legacy it depends on how it plays out. does this create jobs? does this benefit the world in the long-term? that's something that nobody can really know at this point. >> take a look at the president's approval ratings, ryan. president

richard cohen tracks hate groups like this, howard fineman is director at the huffington post. i want to go to richard first on this. give us a sense of this group. is this the successor to the notorious white citizens councils that grew up during reconstruction? >> that's exactly right, chris. they were built, in fact, on the mailing lists of the old white citizens council. at one point in the late '90s, they boasted about 15,000 members including many, many prominent republican office holders. >> why do they like the republican party? i know it's a basic question, but i need to hear it. >> i think the real question is why does the republican party like them so much during that time. it was part of the southern strategy. people like trent lott routinely spoke at their conferences. and for the people involved in the council, the republican party, they were the most conservative game in town. >> what about this guy scalise of louisiana, the guy in leadership now, didn't he speak to one of those groups? >> i believe so, that's correct. he claims like all of them, he didn't know w

. >> reporter: police told his story to rosie o'donnell on "the view," "huffington post," and other programs. when we met him he was doing better earned his ged, started classes at bronx community college, 3.fwilkts g56 gpa. but jail had taken its toll. >> i'm never going to be the same. >> when he first came home he would walk the four corners of the driveway. >> you hear animals that have been confined to a space -- >> yes. he did it. i had to watch my baby go through all of that. >> reporter: the last year khalif grew depressed, deeply paranoid. >> deep down i'm a -- i feel like i'm a grown old man. >> reporter: and then two saturdays ago, two years after his release from jail kalief browder hanged himself with an air conditioner cord in his home in the bronx. he was 22. >> i didn't know what to do. can you imagine? finding your son? and he's hanging with his head back. >> khalif's death made national news and messages of outrage flooded social media. lena dunham instagramed his photo and called for reform. our interview with khalif went viral on facebook. what we now know that is did lea

writing in an op-ed piece for "the huffington post," the president urges salary workers would be eligiblenext year. that is more than double the current level. and estimated to raise wages for some 5 million americans. the proposed changes in the labor department rules can be enacted through regulation with congressional approval. >>> a woman who sued her wall street boss for sexual harassment was awarded $18 million by a federal jury. in an 850 million dollar suit, hanna bovine accused benjamin way of forcing her into sexual encounters and then fired her when he found out she had a boyfriend. way, the owner of the new york global group, denied ever having sex with bovine. >>> the national football league has a new official automotive sponsor. the korean automaker hyundai. it replaces general motors. gm spent about $25 million a year for the right. the deal gives hyundai the ability to use nfl nfl trademarks in its marketing and big nfl events. >>> customers are less satisfied he with fast food restaurants, according to a just released survey. established fast food eateries like mcdonald'

in an arg for the huff i'ming tonne post -- huffington post president obama said it's good for workers who want fair pay and business owners that pay what people should >>> the new jersey governor chris christie is on his way to new hampshire, after declaring that he is running for the white house. >> today i'm proud to announce my candidacy for the republican nomination nomination for the president of america >>> he made the announcement at at school he studied. a few dozen teachers protested, call him a bully and liar. inside he said he was running to bring a spirit of compromise and honesty to the american people. >> i'm not running for president of the united states as a surrogate for being elected prom king of america. i'm not looking to be the most popular guy that looks in your eyes and figure out what you want to hear say it turn around and do something else. when i stand up on a statement like this in front of all of you there's one thing we know for sure. i mean what i say, i say what i mean and that's what america needs right now. >> governor's christy's approval rating skyr

"the huffington post" released the article. rule change would increase the salary will threshold for those that qualify in time and a half to just over $50,000. currently the law applies to those making under $24,000 annually. political reports the change could raise wages for as many as 5 million people. conservatives and business groups are opposed warning it will hinder job creation. >>> let's turn to business. brutal day for stocks monday. dow plunged 350 points biggest point loss in two years amid a global selloff. fears intensify greece could leave the eurozone. atms limit withdrawals to 60 euros per day. what happens at midnight tonight when the deadline expires for greece to submit a loan payment to imf? >> well they will effectively be many default of the imf agreement ayman. that's the problem as far as markets are concerned at the moment. no one is quite sure where pit goes from there on in. currently we have edgy trade in european markets. people are trying to figure out what will be the consequences of greece not m

in an op-ed posted to the huffington post website, the president wrote that too many americans are working long days for less pay than they deserve. under his proposal salaried worker who earn $50,000 a year would automatically qualify for overtime pay, up from the current limit of just under $24,000. impltsz >>> caught on video, a bus driver accused of texting on the turnpike. a passenger shot this video on his ride from philadelphia to new york. >> nbc 10 is live in center city. you found other questions about this bus company's safety. >> reporter: yeah jacqueline safety questions that go well beyond this one specific trip. passengers boarded the bus here on saturday morning, and they tell me that the driver had his phone out texting by the time they got across the ben franklin bridge. that driver has been fired tonight after nbc 10 started asking questions. as the turnpike's lane markers speed past this video captured a bus driver with his cell phone on the steering wheel. every few moments looking down to tap on the screen. texting while driving is illegal in new jersey and a fireable

. >>> and in "huffington post," pope francis says marital separation can be morally necessary to protect, separation is inevitable. this marks a change of tone in the catholic church's traditional attitude toward troubled marriages. >>> and some other stories we're following, the water level at lake mead has sunk to a new low. the lake supplies water to parts of arizona, california and nevada in the midst of a 15-year drought. >>> on the border of texas and oklahoma new video of a huge vortex forming on the dam at lake text ohma what caused it? the army corps of engineers opened a floodgate at the bottom of the lake to let out excess water. >>> pbs announced that ben affleck had undue nuns on the documentary series called "finding your roots." he reportedly convinced producers not to mention that an ancestor once owned slaves. the network said producers violated network standards and is putting series on hold. pbs said it would be taking steps to prevent situations like this from happening in the future. >>> affleck expressed regret for his actions when news went viral and said we deserv

. >>> from the huffington post watch out, dems the koch brothers are closer than ever $300 some millioners of the koch brothers network are hoping adelson does the same for 2016. >>> mitt romney has advice for the gop field. don't lose focus on minority voters. >> the biggest mistake i made was not focusing very early on on minority voters hispanic-americans african-americans, asian-americans. >> president bill clinton is also weighing in on the 2016 gop field. youth, energy and diversity, but there are a lot of them. >> i sympathize with the question of how the primary voters are going to decide who to vote for. there's a lot of them. it looks more like the kentucky derby than belmont. >> and talking horses we would like to point out only eight horses participated in this year's belmont stakes. ten republicans so far have declared plans to run for president. gop presidential candidate marco rubio one of them launching his campaign store yesterday. for $45, you can purchase your very own -- yes, wait for it -- marco polo. >>> lindsey graham is a fan of trap shooting. he had some advice

betty: i know you just renewed a four year contract with barry on a huffington -- with arianna huffington of the content? tim: content has allowed us to go into significant markets, video, global news. if you look at where the world is going by 2020 there will be $40 billion of extra spending on mobile and $40 billion on video. there is really only a few properties the size of techcrunch and huff post. we bring the best of all those platforms, the best of content. from a unique standpoint we have been able to raise at prices and get global distribution. a lot of that is because the content businesses -- you have the combined companies with our technology platforms content and attacking markets that will be an $80 billion to $100 billion opportunity of the next four years or so. we have plans to integrate and push that forward. our team is excited meaning all the people at verizon. this is a big opportunity and a big day for us. betty: aol going off-line as a public company. i have watched you over the years build this tremendous asset. this platform for a a well which is one of the reason

the 1990s website still exists and according to "the huffington post," it's a treasure-trove of adventure. you can check out dr. hammond's office to find someone interactive items. >> and it seems tom people will do noiganything to get out of jury duty. a man showed up wearing a black and white jump suit and he was dismissed. social media is lighting up today with this news story. have a look at this one getting all kinds of media attention. a six-year-old girl is gaining fans worldwide. she was presenting flowers to the queen of england when she was knocked in the face by a saluting soldier. there were a few tears but she took it in stride. and she was wearing a national costume. he was carrying on a british tradition. >>> in today's day two of the heat wave, the temperature now 86. a high in washington of about 94 degrees. it already feels about 94 degrees outside when you factor in the humidity. we will have a breeze at times during these midday afternoon and evening hours. that will help to move the hot air around. high temperatures today in your neighborhood in the low to mid 90s. 92

pimm: because of the huffington post. for $350 bought that million, and he bought other properties.ell's --ls -- what a what aol's strength is is advertisement delivery. for is the big moneymaker aol and verizon. mentioned, it will be interesting to see it and well, under verizon, will be able to compete with facebook and google. appealing,are less and the sponsored native advertising, like video and actual articles posing as news articles, that is what is grabbing advertiser and user attention. betty: that generates a lot of profit, but a well -- but aol has found their growth was 21% in the last quarter, but they are still losing money to his of how great the technology is. pimm: at least they have egg pockets with verizon. ockets with big p verizon. up next, emily chang has an interview with the ceo of blackberry. sniffing out money with a new ad company. details, next. ♪ native advertising. some may collect infomercials. it will be a billion-dollar business next year, up near 19% according to the marketer. ig wants its share. they will create sponsored video content for advertis

a rise in not planning the "huffington post."fter the company agreed to pay $4.4 billion to acquire aol. verizon and dso said the company likes all of aol's portfolio and wants to keep it together. coming up chicago blackhawks become the latest sports dynasty winning the stanley cup. we will have the highlights. investors waiting on the next move in the greek debt drama. dow futures coming off the lows of the morning to 83 points. s&p down, nasdaq futures down 25. you are watching "fbn:am," your first look at morning market and breaking news. ♪ [ male announcer ] legalzoom has helped start over 1 million businesses. if you have a business idea, we have a personalized legal solution that's right for you. with easy step-by-step guidance, we're here to help you turn your dream into a reality. start your business today with legalzoom. still not sure whether to stay turn or go to your people?lity. ♪ well this summer, stay with choice hotels twice and get a $50 gift card you can use for just about anything. go you always have a choice.

they also have "huffington post" and tech crunch. sandra: you've got mail.has aol still, they are so proud of it. before you head out the door, let's get a look at your thursday forecast with fox meteorologist maria molina. should we grab our rain jacket out the door today or is it warmer? reporter: depends where you live. the northeast will be a chilly wind. you were at 55 in new york city, 50 in boston and 47 in caribou, maine. areas further west, looking at temperatures in the 70s this morning. the rockies also on the chilly side. 15 salt lake city and also denver. we do have storms across parts of the plains now here they could produce severe weather across portions of nebraska early this morning and as we have later today and into tonight severe storms will be widespread for mr. parts of wyoming to parts of missouri the threat of returning as in damaging winds and large hail. by tomorrow the risk will continue out there, especially across the high plains. because of storms he could face travel issues around the center of the nation in the central plains

. >> but reading the huffington post how this is yours, this is on you. and the whole stance is that -- the liberals want no one to ever pay for anything. and this is merkel being mean and sort of taking food out of baby's mouths in greece and it's going to be her legacy. >> that's the way it is there. >> i see it in huffington post and probably new york times but you can't have a debt to gdp of 300% without -- >> right. >> you made your bed. i'm sorry you have to sleep in it but it's not her fault. it's not germany's fault. >> they're working 18 hours a day. >> germany also benefitted greatly. >> let's get to athens and the latest on what is a dire financial situation. michelle joins us on the ground. michelle. >> you should know about a headline breaking across here in greece. it suggests that the prime minister is reconsidering going back to the table and looking at a last ditch offer made to him you mentioned it at the top. there's one newspaper reporting. it is the newspaper of record here in greece. i rarely show it to you because they don't often h

signed a new contract to remain with "the huffington post."y leave following the acquisition by verizon. >>> and akio toyoda is apologizing for one of the executives for violating the narcotics drug law. she's cued of receiving oxycodone pills through the mail. >>> mattels hot wheels. we've been talking about this all morning long. teasing you could get a cheaper new model miniature tesla s. toy cars will first be available at san diego's comic con for about a dollar if you want to buy -- i don't know. all the physical toys aren't quite as cool as what you can do with video games. >> that's true. you know what? for little kids like 3-year-olds, they still like to walk around with a toy in hand. >> you don't want to swallow this tesla. i don't think either. >> no. >> don't put it in your mouth. >> how small is it? >> it's a hot wheels. >> hot wheels, it's tiny. >> i can trust them they're not swallowing the hot wheels. >> i was talking about myself. >>> we're going to turn our attention to politics this morning. the gop field expanding again th

pleasure to be a black woman but a republican is a she also has suffered she was portrayed in the of "huffington post" for window dressing as if she could not possibly have her own feelings with her appearance after the national convention in the page was penalized with sexist slurs. by the very people who i think have spent decades to revise all that sort of behavior. >> then your of the wrong side politically but the ends justify the means to know what her to represent those views that they like so they have to silence her in the way to do that is to make waves of attacks to make her see that to be illegitimate. and aunt but but everybody is probably familiar with the story that a president said he supports traditional family but not gay bearish bet the liberal left launched a vicious smear campaign ended of fake you are suggesting that they don't patronize that restaurant but he points out the restaurant itself did nothing other than welcome people the matter who they are or what they believe but was it chick-fil-a for someone? >> there was a man coming through the drive through and getting h

. >>> there's an op-ed piece on the huffington post website.roposal salaried workers who earn $1,000 a week would automatically qualify for overtime pay. that's more than double the current limit of just under 24,000 a year. >>> philadelphia will welcome the first latin pope later on this year in september. and the city's hispanic community is showing cultural pride for the event. yesterday, the hispanic chamber of commerce in philadelphia announced the latino papal fund. it's a new effort to raise money for pope francis's visit. the group's leader is hoping that latinos all around our area will donate. the goal is 100,000 latinos contributing at least $5 apiece. >>> a world renowned artist is creating a massive installation on the ben franklin parkway. people were encouraged to write down struggles or somebody else's on a strip of cloth. hundreds of thousands of pieces of cloth will be tied into knots, from across the world, will be on the ben franklin installation. >>> this morning, donald trump is threatening to sue nbc after the broadcast c

cherylyn harley lebon was senior counsel on the senate judiciary committee and ryan grim with the huffington post. i'll start with you, ryan. i'll start with you. is hillary on course to win this election and be a great president? is she making the right moves? >> i think she's actually quite beatable. but if she does go left and go with the white house, i don't think the pitfalls described earlier in the show are there for her. for one the well is already poisoned. she tried to impeach her husband. if she tries to drink from that well, she's a sucker. >> if she tries to be a moderate. >> right, obama tried it. when he rallied his base, he got the stimulus, obama care, wall street reform done. he then tried to go to the center. and for four years or so, he governed nil, nothing, got nothing done. he now is kind of going back to the base and all of a sudden he's able to govern again even though -- >> so you argue we're a divided country, get used to it? >> that's right. >> i find it interesting because to run to the left, everything that we've seen in terms of what the foundation is doing, he

i look at a huffington post headline, how slavery led to modern capitalism.slavery gave capitalism its start. >> the best i can figure, john, is people want -- a lot of people don't like capitalism, so if you can tarnish it by claiming it somehow was connected with slavery, it makes it look bad. in history where slavery exists, capitalism doesn't exist. it's no coincidence that great written, the home of the -- great britain, the home of the industrial revolution, was one of the first countries to get rid of slavery. brazil, on the other hand, didn't get rid of slavery until 1888, and it's still a lot poorer than, certainly, most people in the united states and western europe. john: and america didn't really prosper until after the civil war when slavery was ended. >> decades after slavery was ended, yes. john: one of your points is slavery is not as efficient as people would think it would be. >> that's right. slavery is efficient for very, very mechanical tasks; growing tobacco and growing cotton. if you're a plantation owner, you might do well by having sl

everything from tech crunch to end gadget to map quest to huffpo, you resigned arianna huffington, the brains and the soul behind that to another multi-year deal. which one do you look at and say that is going to make us money for verizon's bottom line? >> started with the tech capabilities that tim assembled and believe those are best in class. if you think about delivering premium experiences, you have to have great content. if you look at huffpost, map quest, all of those are great deliverers to consumers and consumers want this, we love the content side of the business, people have been spec lath. our model doesn't work without great content. liz: ad tech capabilities, everybody looks at google where you used to work or other companies like facebook saying advertising revenue. i say i never click on the ads, i click on continue to site. how do you even quantify what people are really looking at and absorbing from an ad? >> the beauty of technology and the beauty of the way the world is going, liz, from adoption of digital content and services and advertising, there's a fundamental

howard of the "huffington post" and senior political reporter perry bacon.rst of all, that list is a joke. dr. carson, it's a joke. it's not going to be that way. it doesn't mean anything except whimsy. but bush is running to me for the nomination of a political party that no longer exists. he has a mexican wife. he is the brother of a president who let us in a ground war in iraq his party is totally against. get down the list. he's more common core. everything he's for the majority of the party protests. like the approach he gave us today. >> it's less about him right now and more about can he disqualify scott walk skperp can he disqualify marco rubio. $100 million. >> you say -- >> i suspect he's going to be positive on himself and i expect scott walker is going to do well in debate. so you got to think about that. i think jeb can win if he disqualifies opponents the way mitt romney won last time. winning this way will be hard. >> interesting how times have changed. there he is the most established name in america, bush. grandson or whatever of prescott bu

. >> joining us now is political reporter of the "new york times," nick and from the huffington post stein. sam, to you first on this. was that an answer? what was that? >> i'm trying to make an answer out of it. i couldn't tell. it was an answercommentary i think. i'm not entirely sure if she supports the deal. i don't think she does because she hasn't seen it. i'm motsure if she supports granting the president authority to negotiate the deal. >> she said that's the process part that she doesn't want to weigh in. that's the question for right now, what congress is voting on. >> yeah, and i think she's avoiding it strategically and we'll probably have to live with these answers because she doesn't seem like she wants to give anything more substabtntive than that. >> this is why i think it's a problem. there's a process question but it's also a question of where you sit in the democratic party, which has been split by this. between president obama and republicans and some democrats. and more liberal democrats, including the majority of house democrats, and by the way, nancy pelosi, wh

the president putting the idea forth in the huffington post website last night. the plan would more than double the pay cap from guaranteed overtime. right now salaried workers who make more than in thousand $636 a year, are labeled managers, and they are also ineligible for ot, no matter how it works. the president wants that number to be $50,000 a year, and he said "we have to make sure that hard work is rewarded. right now too many americans are working long days for less pay than they deserved. >> we announced the overtime rules that i'm going to be talking about this week, and giving a raise to 5 million people in this country who really deserve it. >> the rule really targets the white collar workers in supervisor positions. managers of fast food restaurants and retail stores, and because they're called managers, they're not eligible for ot right now. and the president said that the rules need to be updated to reflect straps in america. >> good news for managers, potentially, but business leaders, their bosses, how are they react missing. >> we're hearing th

first huffington post jeb bush 1995 unwed mothers should be shamed.for a better society, shame. joining me now former white house press secretary and cohost of the five dana perino. so i look back to see if he said it and he does have a book in which he has a chapter called the restoration of shame. and he says one of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior no reason to feel shame. parents and neighbors have become wyineffective. >> the left loves this. jeb bush is out of the country. he is doing a european tour before he announces his presidency next monday. >> i hope he is not planning on spending july 4th in jakarta. >> probably not. the left latched on to this because they want to try to find something. i think the democratic opposition groups might wantl to slow down because they have marco rubio's parking tickets. the book does exist before jeb bush became governor. he ran in '94 and didn't win and ran again. you go back to 1995 and the concerns about family value

it's more of the media thing like my friend ariana from huffington post because she's written three books about faith. where is religion belittled in the liberal world? >> joining us with reaction dr. keith ablow as well as pastor fox news contributor doctor robert jeffers. there are a lot of examples. it's interesting christians are often attacks. you don't see as much said about other religions. >> christians losing their business. a marine being court marshalled because she has a bible verse. it doesn't rise to the level of having your head chopped off by isis in the middle east but it's all the same attitude that allows for those attacks, sean. i want to remind that the nazis weren't able to take the jews to the creamatoriums. the nazis had to change public opinion. they marginalized the jewish people. >> christians are being marginalized the way jews in germany were? >> absolutely. they are being treated as objects of contempt by the media and once that happens, then the taking away of further rights will be very easy. >> you know marco rubio, dr. ablow, did talk about a conflict pot

the round table white house correspondent for american urban radio network and editor of the the "huffingtonon writer with the washington post. you covered washington, but the processes don't always work. the supreme court follows american culture and obeys the culture with anthony kennedy. they are not oblivious. >> they are not oblivious and concerned also many of the justices about the court as an institution. i thought of the court having its own internal scope and doesn't want to get people too riled up. >> so the people are for same-sex marriage. yes or no? >> the people are for same-sex marriage. >> and the court is for it. >> the court could have reached into this issue a few years ago. i think it caught the wave at exactly the right time. the chief justice warned that they were forestalling democratic accept tense of this. i think he's totally wrong. i think the country, the court ruled at the moment the country is ready for it. >> george once said don't get so far ahead of the parade you can't hear the music. >> how about that? >> i'll tell you, i know you don't like him, do you? >

. >> i'm joined by ""huffington post"" and msnbc politicalest and all of you, this to me is a profound statement in the campaign. if you look at issues on blacks and how treated by police, she could be al sharpton ask just as tough, immigration fighting for the rights of hispanics and voting rights sounds like me. she's really hitting the hard point. not much room to her left if you're bernie sanders, where do you go? >> i don't think there is, either. what she's doing is a primary seasoned strategy and a general election season strategy. you can learn about her by comparing her to husband. bill clinton got on a bus of the democratic convention in new york and worked the seam of white middle class voters along ohio, pennsylvania, west virginia and going for democrats white swing voters, well, in 25 years, the demographics have changed. the electric and democratic party -- >> talking about women, hispanics, a new demographic america. she's going to also have have to the address them on the tough economic issues which are a little less low hanging fruit than what you put? >> have to make

you talk about she was in the huffington post as a windowdressing and a useful idiot for playing into the party. as though she couldn't be described for her own feelings. you said following the republican national convention her page was vandalized with racist and sexist letters. the very people, that i think spent decades rivaling that sort of behavior if they felt they had been victim of it but then they do it to her for being on the wrong side politically. i guess for them they don't want her to be representing views they don't like so they have to silence her. the way they think they can do that is to make racist attacks against her and dehumanize her. as i said before it sends a very clear message to other people who are watching this. they do not want to meet that same fate. there fate. there are very few people who want to go through that and with good reason. people just want to be left alone, we live their lives peacefully and be able to believe what they believe and have open debates without fear of having their lives broken. >> can you tell us about the story, a chick-fil-a