please welcome james franco. ers and applause) james, good to see you again, how are you. >> great. >> stephen: nice to see you. it's always nice. it's always really nice to have you here. >> i love being here well, james, you're an academy award nominated actor, director. poet, author, photographer, painter, conceptual artist. teacher. >> we're so much alike. >> yeah, yeah with. >> renaissance man. >> yeah. >> stephen: now you're currently a ph.d candidate, correct. >> yes. >> stephen: what are you going to do once you get your ph.d and are you dr. james franco. are you going to go back to general hospital? (laughter) >> i would be a doctor of english but-- but i till might go back to general hospital. >> stephen: you could diagnose people's diaries, correct their grammer. >> is there a form of -- >> i will teach but i'm already teaching it it won't really change, it actually won't change that much other than i could be tenured at the university. but i teach at unc and ucla and call arts already so there's not mu

. >>> and new movie starring james franco is hitting theatres. coming up next, preview of child of god and extreme co-star went to get into the anncvideoconferences it's youof the day.rtant hi! hi, buddy! anncr: that's why the wifi and free hot breakfast are something to smile about. and good reasons to book now. feel the hamptonality >> james franco out with dark new movie called child of god. it is based on the book by mccarthy who also wrote no country for old men, and the road. susan marquez has more. >> i challenge where put them bod ills, so give them a proper burial. >> james franco wrote, directed, co-stars in the grissly drama child of god. it tells the story of an out cast, who falls deeper and deeper into a life of crime. >> what i'm examining is human behaviors, human desire, and the extremes that we can go to just based on feelings in these certain needs to connect to another person. >> how come you are scouting around here in the woods? >> scott haze lost 45 pounds, and spent months in isolation in tennessee, to prepare for the role

they are mad because the new movie the interview is at the which james franco and seth rogan want to go out and assessing kim jong-un. i meant i call the cute leader. we had the great leader, the dear leader, why not the cute leader? but they are very, very, very unhappy and to threaten war over the terrible movie. hollywood has become a tool of american imperialism. china has a sharp elbows in the south china sea, the filipinos are worried, the japanese are worried. the vietnamese want us to come, our old enemies so they want us around and would like to have us help them out. then we get to ukraine where clearly in a sense of cold war in some sense is being re-created. it's a difficult situation but the reality is no one in america wants to go to war over ukraine which means the russians have the capability what they want, though i suspect put in some missions are probably somewhat down. i'm not sure what's to bring in a lot of ukrainians. you look back to world war ii, ukrainians don't like it if they are subjugated to put in grad the only area that had russian population and that

that's longer than james franco's arm was trapped under a bolder. only had to deal with that once. i'll have to deal with this every week and i only have two arms. you know what, we're confident we can do better than whoever is currently running that network, which i assume is just a roomful of angry chimps. [laughter] look, we... they really don't even look that angry in that picture. they look like some bemused chimps. trying to order pizza or something. look, i know we've given cnn hard time in the past. we may have lightly ribbed their enthusiasm for new technology, their magic giant touch screens and tall, grande and of course venti, a newsroom floor you can play tetris on hologram, a giant bleep for no reason. flying pie charts, virtual iowa caucus dildo people. deep-sea airplane search pod simulators. and, of course, this. >> you've never seen anything like this on television. >> hi, wolf. >> all right. big round of applause. we did it. [laughter] >> jon: we did it. we made a reporter shorter and blurrier. you know, my point is this: we've tr

they're mad because the new movie "the interview" is out there in which james franco wants to assassinate kim jong-un. they are, very, very happy and threatened war over this movie. hollywood has obviously become a tool of imperialism. the vietnamese kind of want us to come, our old enemies, suddenly want us around and like to have us help them out. then we get to ukraine where clearly in a sense the cold war in some sense is being recreated there. you know, it's a difficult situation, but the reality is no one in europe or america i think wants to go to war over ukraine which means the russians have the capability that do what they want though i expect putin's ambitions are somewhat bounded. i'm not sure he wants to bring in a lot of ukrainians. the ukrainians don't like if if they're subjugated. you bring in 60% or more ukrainians, that's not likely to be very stable for you. so i suspect that's going to be a chronic problem for the future and there are others, moldova, georgia, and others in the same situation that have the difficulties with the russians. so we're looking ahead, i'd sa

entertainment headlines, taking north korea objection to upcoming film starring seth rowing and and james francoery seriously. >> that's right. according to the hollywood reporter, the studio is digitally altering thousands of buttons worn by the characters in the movie, because they depict actual hardware worn by the north korean military honoring the country's leaders. north korea considers showing military decorations, the movie follows rogan and frank owe as pair of journalists recruited by the cia to assassinate king junk aoun. >> forced robin williams daughter offer social media? some have harassed her since her father's death monday. bullies said she hasn't posted enough pictures of her father. and some have been cruel enough to send crude photo shopped images of her dad. in response she made this statement on her twitter account: i'm sorry. i should have risen above, deleting this from from my devices for a good long time maybe forever. time will tell. good-bye. longer response about the situation on her instagram account. >> just awful. >>> the king of pop still making history, becoming

. >> rose: all the cameos, specifically, james franco. >> uh-huh. >> rose: come to your mind?well, we are very lucky on the show because it is a dating show, and so many of my friends who are writers and, you know, creators are men who could -- so we have a lot of writers and arguments on the show, actors on the show. >> he was on the show. he is wonderful. seth rogan, we have a lot of writer performers that come and play on the show. >> rose: does your success represent i mean anything about diversity, anything about the possibilities of expanding the world of women in comedy? >> i hope so. i have some, even when i started on the office, and that was nine years ago, when i started on the show, there were not that many female comedy shows, and now several of my favorite shows like dirty rock, that is sort of the way i write, not only that, not only are they -- they have created their own show. even in the years i have been there it has changed a lot. now, being -- i mean, i hope there are more women who look like me who have their own shows. and it is a hit show, actually. man

. >> are we sure that's not james franco doing one of his installations in costume? >> thank you. thank you, amy. >>> we turn now to the growing ebola crisis. while doctors here have had some success treating the disease it continues to march relentlessly across africa. dr. richard besser made a return trip to the hot zone in liberia to see what it will take to stop this deadly outbreak and good morning to you, dr. besser. >> reporter: there have been outbreaks of ebola for 40 years but none that caused the devastation they're seeing in this. i went to the country's largest hospital to see the heroic efforts under way to save lives. this morning, a look inside the hot zone, a make-shipt ebola clinic. used to be used for treating people with cholera and now it's ebola. open just nine days ago it's now at full capacity. nearly 60 ebola patients, many without beds to sleep on. >> highly contagious, highly infectious. very dangerous. >> reporter: we suit up in full protective gear and go inside a triage unit, a highly infectious area www.suspected cases first arrive. they're assessed

james franco of -- >> yeah. >> green goblin fame and other things.spider-man. >> ten seconds, got to go, michelle. >> come on. >> okay, rob. >> is best buy a good buy? results released just moments ago. we're going to take a deeper look at the numbers next. in a world that's changing faster than ever, we believe outshining the competition tomorrow quires challenging your business inside and out today. at cognizant, we help forward-looking companies run better and run different - to give your customers every reason to keep looking for you. so if you're ready to see opportunities and see them through, we say: let's get to work. because the future belongs to those who challenge the present. >>> welcome back to "squawk box." making headlines. chinese antitrust regulators are targeting microsoft's web browser media player. the tech giant says it has been cooperating with the investigation. the issue of how microsoft bundles its web browser and media player drew scrutiny with u.s. and european regulators as early as the 1990s. very rarely does microsoft ge