would you buy at the rest of itv? >> i personally think the u.k.ill be increasingly interesting for foreign capital. theuess would be that cheaper pound, combined with a more pro-business government, personally a substantial investor in ireland, and i worry the u.k. will start competing with ireland as the most business-friendly player. but, in all seriousness, i think the u.k. is going to be fine. i think the reaction has been way overblown, and i think this will create investment opportunities in the u.k. i think there's also a fair chance that they work out their eu issues and ultimately, if they don't exit entirely, they may have some kind of a special relationship, you know? rational people will ultimately figure this out. julie: that was john malone of liberty media, from the sun valley allen and company conference. vonnie: more from sun valley ahead. ceoill see whether iac's agrees with barry diller that the industry has too few actual decision-makers. stick around. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ vonnie: this is "bloomberg markets." julie: time now

itv now looks cheaper for a u.s. acquirer than it did.nders was on the night of the referendum. i mean, the u.s. media companies , they basically have to look at the entire for folio, right? >> the u.s. media companies and content are global. significant business in europe. they were hurt last year and will be hurt this year by weakness in the currency. but there are opportunities for them to perhaps pick up some assets on the cheap. francine: chris was talking about possible m&a. whether you talk about italian banks or europe in general, , you have one regulator. because of the troubles in the banks and the stock prices, is there no way that we will see cross-border consolidation to make things easier? >> i don't think you will have cross-border consolidation. there will be an important decision by september, october. in europe, the basle committee thinks french banks loaning germany or belgium goes -- those are foreign operations. same central bank, same currency, same ingle resolution. i think what is going to happen is they're going t

we have the itv results crossing the bloomberg.umbers, 425 -- four to 25 million pounds. -- 425 million pounds. relative beat on the first-half pretax profit on earnings level, that comes in at 438 million pounds. adjusted earnings up 8.5. what we want to see is any indication in terms of the outlook. that is where the real focus is going to be, because the worry is exit may impact the recession here. in britain.sk in anna: reporting first-half .evenues of 268 million pounds that was against an estimate of 276 million, shot in terms of that revenue. pence. come in at 3.3 367.6, the first half interim dividend, 3.78 pence. various numbers come through from arm, but the big story, cambridge base chit designer is on the table has been received my arm from the bank over in japan. increasing interest in some of the uk's ftse 100 listed companies and arm is no exception. this is a bit of a hot potato politically. u.k. government confirming philip hammond, the chancellor, very hard about the future autonomy of the company. we will be look

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you gave an interview to itv the british network back in june suggesting that you are more concernedlinton at least in terms of press freedom than donald trump. do you stand by that? is this based on a personal animus? >> you can go back and look at that ite interview. i never said i wanted to do harm to hillary clinton, anything like that. it was the presenter that used that word and "the new york times" -- to try and get its candidate up. >> the question of anger that you are interfering in the u.s. election, you say this is what -- that your readers are american and therefore it's okay? >> well, it's what our readers demand. it's also our basic principles that the publication of true information and thus an important qualifier, true information about modern institutions allows us to understand what they are doing and therefore to reform them. if we don't understand what our institution's doing we have no hope to reform them whatsoever. >> julian assange, appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. >> you can watch the full interview with julian assange at our website

in an interview on british net work itv, emma watson was chatting about her upcoming film when this happenede i have ever heard. steamy windows. >> i'm glad i'm forgiving. i'm so sorry. >> that was tine that turner's 198 hit "steamy windows." who was trying to call her? our money is on the she was just invited to join as a member of their class of 2016. have you had that happen? >> on the air. with diane sawyer. many time ps. >> do you have a fun ringer though? >> no. >> maybe like celine dion? >> does that surprise you? >> like your heart will go on, maybe when ali calls. >> george is more like snoop dogg. >> something you don't expect coming. can we change your ringer for fun today? >> steal his phone. steal his phone. >> he's hiding it. >> we'll do it after this. >>> rihanna just released her ground-breaking video "sledge hammer." the first music video ever shaugt entishot entirely for im. ♪ i'm bracing for the pain and letting go ♪ >> the vid voe shot in the desert four hours outside los angeles. the director said she wanted rihanna to embody an ancient and other-worldly energy. she went

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