hugh: it is pretty harsh.t some point, they release -- you will be able to see some of that stuff in the form of extra material. but even just in rehearsals, i saw things -- i saw her do things that i would have cheerfully paid $500 to sit on broadway and watch her do that. she is given a glass of water and the rest of the scene is -- you are angry. go. literally that. and i believe she can entrance an audience -- just on anger and a glass of water. i am besotted as is everyone on the show. she's leader of the administration but also leader of the show. jeff: improvisational training. or is that her natural character? hugh: i don't know. it is interesting. what is talent? is it something she was born being able to do? or was it an appetite she was born with that she then apply to for years and years in many different areas with many great creators? i don't know which it is that the combination is astounding to watch. jeff: when talent meets circumstance it is a great thing. if you had to pick, comedy or drama?

lisa: baker hughes shares not moving much. however insurers also not moving that much. why? >> this has been dragging on so long committee of investors may have already been expecting this. halliburton and baker hughes have been trying to make concessions, trent to offer up settlement for a long time now -- trying to offer up settlement for a long time now. they're facing regulators in europe and brazil as well. they've been trying to make this work, weeks and -- we've seen halliburton trying to offload a bunch of assets. antitrust officials will be talking about the global reach. >> it is a huge deal. i will be at the conference. a lot of antitrust regulators and attorneys and analysts attend that conference. say very much because they will not say anything publicly that they have not already said publicly in a press release or otherwise. deal, but a decision to block a deal -- lisa: what does this mean going forward? everyone's been waiting for this wave of consolidation within the oil and gas industry. what does this mean for the potential acquisition and consolidations t

the industry has gone through hughes consolidation.ure ab inbev can get a hold of sabmiller. are they any regulation hurdles? duncan: they have done a majority of what they need to do to get regularities twos -- regulators to sign on the dotted line. it is something we have not thought about in terms of market share it whether there is deeper issues. who knows whether they may come back and ask more from abi. francine: this is a story of consolidation. it is a story of having the appetite for a lot of cash. it is a story of currency and emerging markets. what does it tell you that out of those three components? didier: not the emerging markets story. china.ed about if you look at the rest of emerging markets, you have a situation where overall, after hardships, a hard time of recovering from the slowdown of five years ago, we are reaching a situation now where the economy, retail spending in countries like india continues to be sturdy. probably in countries which have become extreme the complicated, like in brazil. to situation is star

joy williams and radio host, hugh hewitt. since you don't have the benefit of being at the table with all this black girl magic, i go to you first. you must have enjoyed that last night, hugh. bloomberg did an analysis against a number of 48 total attacks, 26 sanders on clinton, 22 clinton attacking sanders. and compare that to back in february when it was only 21 total attacks, 12 versus 9. hugh, how happy and excited were you to watch that brawl in brooklyn on thursday night? >> i loved every minute of it, joy. good morning, and i played a lot of it on my radio show on friday morning. lots of the excerpts. look, i'm a cleveland browns fan. that was like watching the steelers play the ravens. no winner there for me. however, it was useful for november when i thought about the clips that we could pull out, especially when senator sanders called former secretary of state clinton a racist. i think that will show up in some republican ads. i think we're going to find the exchange on israel -- sealing new york for hillary. i love

. >> reporter: it's part of the job for officer cody hughes. >> every day is a new day. so there can be different scenarios that happen every day. >> reporter: over the last 18 months, there have been at least three scenarios that stand out. situations where officer hughes saved the lives of complete strangers. >> there was a medical emergency of an elder gentleman who had collapsed and was turning blue. so my medical instincts kicked in. >> reporter: she's referring to an incident in the east wing of the white house in august of 2014. jack torres who's also the mayor of a city in new mexico had a heart attack in the hallway. but because of hughes, he was around to welcome his first grandson in january. >> to me, i'm just thankful that this individual can continue with his life. >> reporter: in addition to mayor torres, officer hughes saved a homeless man in lafayette park and a gentleman in leesburg who suddenly collapsed. first responders say the patients would have likely died without her help. but if you tell her she's a hero, she'll quickly remind you that she was j

everyone please welcome hugh dancy! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: looking sharp, brother, looking good, man. thank you for coming on the show. you and paul rudd. >> amazing. >> jimmy: yeah. >> i mean the paul bit -- his voice, my god. >> jimmy: he can sing, right? >> amazing. >> jimmy: you knew him, you worked with him before, right? >> i did, yeah. yeah. >> jimmy: what was the film? >> "our idiot brother." >> jimmy: "our idiot brother," yeah. you actually had to paint him in the nude? >> i did have that pleasure. >> jimmy: there you are, there. [ laughter ] congratulations on that. >> same beard. >> jimmy: what was that? >> same beard. >> jimmy: you brought the beard scenes? >> well, i mean, as you see, i was fully dressed. >> jimmy: yeah. exactly. >> paul was -- i'd say strangely comfortable? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: almost too comfortable. >> yeah. i actually did that painting myself. >> jimmy: yeah, you really did? >> he found that a little strange. >> jimmy: how long did it take you to do that? >> like, you know,

let's begin with the $34 billion pending takeover by halliburton of rival baker hughes which the two companies pursued in the wake of slumping oil prices. the government lawsuit argues that deal would cut competition in the industry to unacceptable levels. shares of both companies rose in trading today. eamon javers is with us now from washington. good to see you as always, eamon. >> hi, sue. >> the doj made really pretty tough assertions about this deal. give us some of the details. >> reporter: yeah, they did, sue. in fact in a conference call with reporters where they broke down exactly why they took this action, doj officials said it was one of the worst antitrust cases they'd ever seen and said some deals ought to never leave the corporate board room and said candidly they thought this was one of those deals that should never have gotten as far as the government review in the first place. so a fascinating back and forth here between the government and these two companies who argue that they wanted to combine and that they thought it was an important thing to do for their industr

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>> they say they were trying to include the merger between halliburton and baker hughes.ket is being concerned about and seen reports of antitrust officials being skeptical and concerned. david: let me have a look at the bloomberg. here showing the spread at 40% here. remind us of what the holdup -- this deal was announced in 2013. $42.6 billion deal. what are the concerns? what could the u.s. government be concerned about here? >> this is a deal that will tie up the number two and number three players in the oil services industry and there is a lot of concern whether it will take out competition and raise oil prices for companies who are trying to get craggets and service wells and drill wells and all the things that halliburton and bake you are hughes do. david: what do we know of what value delem act might have been trying to do here? halliburton aken and baker hughes have been trying to force the companies to spur the conclusion of the deal. but the question that's raised in their case that is quite interesting at what point does an investment going from a passive inv

reporter: the justice department says the baker hughes albertan would eliminate significant competition. early wednesday morning atat the depament of justice filed the antitrust lawsuit to block the deal. halliburton proming to fight the department of justice and proceed with the $35 billion merger between the number two and number three oil service industry firms. her brother lynch says the merger pairs competition at risk into many markets and the merger would harm american consumers. she fired a warning shot at companies considering other megamergers seen in the days ahead we will continue to stand up for failed deals and free markets. >> free societies require free-market in markets where busisses can warm cartels and create monolies to manipulate prices with no oversight can hardly qualified as free. >> halliburton and you say it is procompetitive and wilill allow the customers to benefit from the more foot about innovative and efficient oilfield services company. >> department of justice's says e merger was one of those deals that are so antitrust risk in that they never right to

the judge sentenced douglas hughes to four months in prison followed by 12 months of probation.ge didn't think hughes realized the safety risk he took flying over such a populated area and he was solely focused on get publicity for his cause. >> it is not my intend to break laws in the future, okay. it is my intend to get the money out of politics and every time i'm faced with a choice, i am going to look at getting that done as part of my decision. >> hughes later said he would go back to jail if it helped get money out of politics. >>> we turn to sports with breaking news for the wizards. >> yeah. a new era coming on, bruce. >> big name coach. >> didn't take long. >> didn't take long for the wizards to ge they are sparing no expense on the new head coach. coming up, the the nra and its campaign cash are what stands between us and gun reform. "searing tragedy struck in a place parents felt their children were safe" that would let the nra skirt a new campaign finance law and block gun control. but democrat donnaar edwds said "no" to the nra loophole and stood up to the gun lobby

radio talk show host hugh hewitt and perry bacon. welcome to sunday, it is "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. donald trump got wiped out in the delegate race in yet another state yesterday. in wyoming, ted cruz won all the delegates that were up for grabs at yesterday's wyoming state convention. now, trump says it would have been a waste of time and money for him to campaign there, claiming the system is rigged and as the republican establishment is trying to take the nomination away from him. we'll get to that story later in the show. but we'll begin with the democrats. and the intersection of money, politics and hollywood and my surprisingly frank conversation with george clooney. last night in los angeles, and the night before in san francisco, george and amal clooney hosted fund-raisers for hillary clinton where the top ticket set you back $353,000. for that price you got to sit at the same table with hillary clinton and the clooneys. it was very muc

hugh hewitt, thank you very much. appreciate it. donald trump and house speaker paul ryan will be on "morning joe." stay with us. msnbc's coverage continues after this. >>> what a night it's been so far. again, it's been billed as easily the third or fourth super tuesday we've had in just this election season, but here's the big news. five for five on the republican side for donald trump. we'll hear from him in just a moment coming out of our live coverage of donald trump from the trump tower. on the democratic side, all but rhode island for hillary clinton. there we go.

when he asked about howard hughes? gloria: i said only the greatest things about howard hughes.harlie: you had a lot of lovers. gloria: yes, i did. i went to hollywood when i was 17. i had been living with my and gertrude and heavily sheltered. she sent me out for two weeks with a chaperone called constance. when constance arrived, she said, there is no room for you. you have to stay in a hotel. two days later, constance went home. my mother literally let me do everything i wanted. charlie: what was it you wanted? gloria: what i wanted was to be grown-up. to go out with movie stars. anderson: it was howard hughes you had the real relationship with. gloria: the one i had a real relationship with. charlie: did you think about marrying him? gloria: i certainly would have. charlie: he never asked? gloria: what happened was, i went back to new york, and he sent pat dicicco, who was working for him, so we could see each other. dicicco had a hold on me in a strange way. anderson: she ended up dating this gofer for howard hughes, who was a total thug, who may have murdered his former wi

hughes said he just wanted to raise attention to big money in politics.unty sheriff ron bateman and his wife deny there was any violence between them despite the 911 call and the accusation that she was tonight a survivor of do mest vike lens shares her experience and sees a lot of similarities. maryland bureau chief brad bell explains. brad: ten years ago yvette was set on fire by her abusive husband. she survive and is now an advocate for abusessed women. tonight she is speaking out about the charges against ron bateman. >> i'm devastated an official was charged. brad: he is accused of hitting his wife after she made this 911 call -- mrs. bateman and the sheriff now deny there was any violence. >> i never, never, assaulted elsie. brad: while bateman is presumed innocent of all charges yvette says she recognizes her past in the case! she is a mode. >> and she thinks bateman should resign but he says he won't. even though more and more voters say he should go. >> if you hear about the 911 tapes it sounded like he beat her to me. >> going to continue doing

plus we have hugh dancy, jack whitehall, and thank you notes. it's a great show. >>> happening now on our home page, a colorado woman will spend the next 100 years in prison for cutting a fetus out of a pregnant mother. the baby did die. but prosecutors will unable to charge the murder with the infant's murder. >>> and the u.s. announces its first death from the zika virus. it happened in puerto rico, where the island is battling more than 700 cases right now. back with more news in a moment.

hugh, thank you very much for joining us tonight.iate it. >> thanks lawrence. >>> coming up, bill o'reilly and that question he asked donald trump last night about black unemployment and tattoos on the forehead. he used tavis smiley's name and tavis will join us. hillary clinton gets an important endorsement in the fight for new york. with my moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, the possibility of a flare was almost always on my mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go... and how to deal with my uc. to me, that was normal. until i talked to my doctor. she told me that humira helps people like me get uc under control and keep it under control when certain medications haven't worked well enough. humira can lower your ability to fight fections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've b

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douglas hughes plead guiltto a slew of charges last year. he will now serve 180 days in jail. of a protest to highlight campaign finance reform. afterwards.. hughes will undergo a year of supervision, and will have to stay away from the capitol and the white house. covering metro-- well it was fun while it lasted. after five consecutive weekends without track work delays-- metro has some bad news for riders. single tracking delays will impact service on all six lines this weekend. trains will operate every 10-20 minutes on the red, orange, blue, and silver and sunday, free shuttles will replace green line trains between college park and greenbelt. it's xx and we're just getting started. the passing of prince. the music icon's the passing of prince. the music icon's sudden death sparks outpourings of love all over the country. we'll show you more.. and tell you what we are learning this morning, coming up. good morning washington.

hugh hewitt, reince priebus is trying very hard to claim that the process is not rigged.trump's trying very hard to paint it as rigged. who's got the better pr case? >> rnc has the better facts as reince priebus pointed out in your interview. they have instructed the committee this week not to make any rules changes. any rule changes will be done by the delegates themselves. donald trump does well building skyscrapers, not building state delegation majorities. he got beat in georgia last night, cue vik ki lawrence the night the lights went out in georgia. won 12 consecutive victories including -- >> i'll put up a graphic we have put together. he has beaten on delegates 2 to 1 since march 2nd. but that advantage has erased on tuesday with -- >> i tend -- trump is coming back because ivanka has returned to the trail. she's a tremendous -- there's a piece in "new york times" this morning on how she is poised and disciplined and bringing that to her father's campaign. so the solution here is a fusion ticket cruz-trump, but ivanka is the vice president. >> let me tell you, tru

justice department will block a merger between halliburton baker hughes as well. the regulatory environment coming up.

douglas hughes was sentenced to four months behind bars. the judge called his message is publicity stunt. hughes says his only regret is wasting government sources. >> i'll never do it again, but, yes, it was worth it. i haven't apologized in the past and i'm not apologizing now. we need the reform. >> hughes says he would be willing to go to jail again in an act of civil disobedience in order to >>> the boyfriend would police say left his girlfriend's toddler in a hot car is now facing charges in the girl's death. arlington county police say da'quan fields left the 2-year-olded in a hot car for seven hours on wednesday. he called 911 when he spotted her, but it was too late. officials say fields routinely drops his girlfriend's children off at two different locations but something may have enter represented that. >> terrible story. >>> stay with us. "news 4 today" continues now at 5:00 a.m. >>> breaking news right here at the live desk, we've learned one driver is dead in an accident on the beltway that has lanes blocked on the outer loop

hugh hewitt, thank you very much. appreciate it. donald trump and house speaker paul ryan will be on "morning joe." stay with us. msnbc's coverage continues after this. >>> what a night it's been so far. again, it's been billed as easily the third or fourth super tuesday we've have in the election season. 5 for 5 on the republican side for donald trump. we'll hear from him in just a moment. coming out of our live coverage of donald trump from the trump tower. on the democratic side, all but rhode island for hillary clinton. and there we go. bernie sanders, lone victory of the night. he had gone on to west virginia. we saw live coverage of rally with him. trump goes to indiana tomorrow. but a

today 62 year-old douglass hughes was sentenced to 120 days in jail.oday said hughes displayed a total lack of concern for the safety of others. hughes said the stunt was meant to protest influence of money in politics. >>> former campaign manager for the mayors of allentown and reading pleaded guilty to day. it is part of an ongoing corruption probe. michael fleck is charged with conspiracy to commit extortion and bribery, and tax evasion. he faces ten years in prison. investigation centers on demand from campaign contributions from vendors in exchange for city business. allentown married he had pawlowski and former reading mayor vaughn spencer have have not been charged. >>> atlantic city may be on the brink, the financial brink but casinos are hiring. the city's eight casinos plan to hire 2400 workers for the summer and 600 of those jobs will be full-time jobs. these are substantially higher numbers then last summer. an indication perhaps that the surviving casinos are stabilizing and looking to grow their business. let's hit that accu weather forec

ted cruz at 49%, hugh hewitt. those are tough numbers.. 56% negative rating. sanders-kasich is what the public wants apparently. >> parties are continuing bodies, they are not the public. they stand for ideological sets of principles. i was at the jewish committee in nevada where ted cruz got four standing ovations. i believe he's going to be the nominee because he is more consistently with the ideological spectrum that is the continuing republican party. donald trum's had a good week, catherine's right, he's going to have a good couple of weeks. he ain't getting close to 1,237. >> trump will be the nominee probably for the opposite reason you say. why is every conservative radio guy basically for cruz? explain that culture to me. >> actually, they're not. the only guy that's come out actually formally is mark levine who has an enormous -- i'm very neutral. i'm switzerland. >> you are? >> i don't endorse anyone. >> no, you said if trump's the nominee -- >> i support the nominee. >> all i hear is radio talk for cruz. >> you've got to liste

did. >> reporter: a year after his death, the young roots went into the earth in memory of captain hughes this week, arlington's board officially named it a notable tree. arlington county's been running this program nearly 30 years, and in total have some 300 so-called notable trees. some of them in public spaces, like this elm. jamie helps run the program saying it's about recognizing the owners or caretakers as much as the tree. >> and let people know with proper care you can have a notable tree some day, too. >> reporter: for this southern magnolia, that proper care over the years came from captain hughes's fellow firefighters and those since stationed here. >> one thing we're trying to preserve is the memory and make sure that future geneti not only firefighters in arlington but arlingtonians themselves know what this tree is here for and why it's here, for his sacrifice. >> reporter: and we mentioned beautiful trees like that adding value to property ahead at 9:00. in our 9:00 hour. they're beautiful, you take them in. haven't really done that before. >> such a strong symbol. what a

we begin tonight with hugh laurie. he stars in the a.m.c. miniseries "the night manager." >> the anxiety that comes with dealing with something precious, not to say "house" wasn't precious. it was. i mean, incredibly so. those scripts were absolutely gems, but they were gems i didn't know about until i get the script on a tuesday and we're shooting it on a wednesday, so there's no time to anticipate and get anxious. with this, i've had 23 years of, "it's coming, it's coming, it's coming." and finally someone hands you the fab jay egg, and please, let's not drop it. >> glor: we conclude with frank wisner editor? chief. >> who supported handgun control with the brady bill, and who did more-- although he later regretted it-- to make abortion legal in the years before "roe v wade" because he signed a bill saying a woman's doctor could give her permission to have an abortion. you think the republican party. he doesn't get past iowa. >> glor: hugh laurie and jacob weisberg when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by

when he asked you about howard hughes, you said? >> i said only the greatest thing about howard hughes. >> rose: you had a lot of lovers, didn't you? >> yes, i did. i went out the hollywood when i was 17, and i had been living with my aunt gertrude and very heavily chaperoned, and she sent me out for two weeks to be with my mather with a chaperone called constance who when constance arrived my mother said, there's no room for you here, you have to stay in a hotel. two days later, constance went home. >> and the two week trip turned into -- >> oh, and my mother literally let me do everything i wanted. >> rose: what did you want? what i wanted was to be grown up and go out with movie stars. >> it was really howard hughes who you really had a real relationship with. >with. >> rose: did you ever think about marrying him? >> what happened was i went back to new york and he had sent pat dicico who was working for him in some sort of way so we could see each other because decico had a hold on me in a strange way. >> she ended updating this

chris matthews, kathleen parker, hugh hewitt and perry bacon.hris, fire away. >> i think one thing that bernie sanders is saying is not true. he's talking about members of congress, people in washington, taking money for speeches. you voted that out years ago. >> right, there are no honorariums. the bottom line here, we have two candidates who are at the more narrow end of the funnel as we end the primary election contest. it will get more heated. but look, compared to the republicans who are in utter chaos, our two candidates have been substantive and robust. they have kept largely to the issues that are important to the american people. talked about how they want to build on the congressional delegates -- congressional democrats' legacy. we want to move the country for and help people reach the middle class. they have slightly different approaches to how to get there. but it's a substantialtive discussion. >> bernie sanders has really attacked the 1990 -- the crime bill of '94 and welfare bill of '96 were bad legislation. do you agree with tha

. >> douglas hughes learned his fate for that stunt. a video of it.ve details on the sentencing. >> reporter: it took place today. the judge giving hughes 120 days in prison, which would equal four months. following that there will be 12 months of probation. the defense today all day were fighting for just time served but the judge said she didn't think that would reflect the seriousness of the events. she said in remarks before the sentencing that she felt like hughes acted arrogantly, even today like he knew best and we were supposed to trust him. she remarked on his tunnel vision on getting publicity for this stunt. the government was recommending ten months. she thought that was too much but she talked about how difficult the case was there was no other case to turn to to know what kind of sentence to hand down. she corrected two things. she believes he lied to the secret service when hughes said he did not lie and she said that he did not try to notify the government because he was using an old e-mail address and he was trying to go to the media

you know i like you a lot, hugh hewitt.s is money, and it is social security and it is a real thing, josh. >> i partly agree with you there. i think the social security trust fund is an accounting fiction. >> everything in our federal budget is an accounting fiction. >> no, social security trust fund basically holds government bonds. the government says we -- oh, the government owes money to itself. >> and they have never failed to pay those. >> where i disagree with you, we have a large national debt but also a large economy. and the economy generates tax revenue, generates economic activity that can pay for future benefits. the gap between expected tax collections and social security and expected payouts from social security over the long run is somewhere around 1.5, 2% -- >> of gdp. >> which is a lot. we have to have meaningful tax increases or benefits cuts in the future -- >> the government is not going to fail on bonds. we can show the chart again. even at the current trajectory, if we do absolutely nothing, you're st