kara swisher of re/code will join us on that.ay's big move in twitter still up 15% when "squawk alley" continues. >>> welcome back to "squawk alley." kara swisher, co-executive editor at re/code joins us this morning as she does on all fridays. good morning to you. good to see you. >> how are you doing? >> pretty good. twitter a big story as you know. >> yeah. >> shares are up on the heels of the strong earnings report. we talked to twitter ceo dick costolo and we asked him the problems that users stay and engaged on the platform what does he think about it? here's what he said. >> it's not a one size fits al correction. there's a number of complex and fairly detailed steps we have to take people through to get them back into that tightly ingrated experience on ios if they've experienced the bug and so frankly we're pretty happy with the volume of people we have gotten back into the platform, given the steps we've had to take them through and the work on our end to correct the issue. >> did his explanation on this ios thing satis

. >> when we come back a meeting of the minds tomorrow as re/code's kara swisher sits down for an interviewith none other than president obama. kara will joins us for a preview in a moment. house of cards accidentally hitting the web two weeks early. netflix's response to frank underwood's early debut. amy ps paschal speaking out after being more or less fired from her post at sony. dow up 56. "squawk alley" continues in a moment. in my world, wall isn't a street. return on investment isn't the only return i'm looking forward to. for some, every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for college. our commitment to current and former military members and their families is without equal. start investing with as little as fifty dollars. >>> re/code's kara swisher set to sit down for an interview with president obama tomorrow and joins us this morning from san francisco. kara, good morning to you. >> how are you doing? >> we were just discussing off air how many different questions

joining us kara swisher at re/code who joins us phon fridays.to you. >> how you doing? >> as you know, big morning on net neutrality. >> yeah. >> setting the stage this week. fcc voting to pass the new rules. we did talk to commissioner ajit pai in the last hour who voted against the measure where he warned us of the fees that consumers could face. let's take a listen to this. >> the fcc explicitly opens the door to billions in new fees and taxes on broadband by subjecting broadband for the first time to the telephone style taxes under the universal service fund. moreover, the fcc completely brushes away the concerns from smaller competitors who are now going to be subject to all kinds of other taxes, state property taxes, general receipt taxes and the like. but most importantly i think is the critical questicompetition. there's nothing in this plan that spurs greater questiontition. >> he said most people have not read the plan, i have. does he have a point? >> he has a point on the last point he has a fantastic point. the issue, a lot of the s

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kara swisher from re/code. >> thanks to kara.g on a bitter record-setting cold air mass bringing subzero temperatures to most of the central and eastern u.s., the weather channel's chris warren in quincy, massachusetts, where the snow has been piling up for weeks. chris? >> it has been piling up for weeks and if you look the at the snow that we have here as we're driving around, this is likely some of the same snow that piled up just three weeks ago. meaning that when you have storms during the course of a season, you get a storm come through, some melting. here it has been so cold in the month of february, only above freezing twice. so this snow all this snow around here in quincy and around new england, it's going to be hanging around a lot, a while, a lot longer than normally because you one storm after another with not much, if any, melting happening in between these systems. boston, itself is getting close to an all-time seasonal record when it comes to snowfall around 108 inches. right now around 99 inches. so about 9 more

hillary clinton talking to kara swisher yesterday. take a listen. >> i would vote for net neutrality because as i understand it, it's title two with a lot of changes in it to avoid the worst of the utility regulation, so it's a foot in the door, it's a value statement. >> jon steinberg, did she make news yesterday? >> not really. i would vote for it if it is as i understand it because nobody understantes what it is. the hill reported collisioner clyburn on the fcc wants to let the bill go through as it is but remove regulation around interconnection, the big feud comcast and netflix had months back. that would be a significant change and probably would allow for a certain amount of free trade and free commerce some are concerned would be limited by net neutrality. >> i don't know what this does. all kinds of stuff on the one hand removing this interconnection stuff might allow comcast to keep doing what it was doing and netflix oh, wait a second on the other hand by removings this that provides more ammunition for the netflixs of the

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she's comfortable and talked about net neutrality and she didn't even hesitate when journalist kara swisher asked her this question. >> apple watch or fit bit? >> you can tell i'm not doing fit bit. [ laughter ] >> in santa clara, david louie abc 7 news. >> well, in audition to hillary clinton, state lawmakers tonight are echoing patricia's call. the women's conference wants to strengthen state laws ensuring women are paid equally for kompl comparable work and want to prevent retaliation if a woman asks about pay on the job. >> we have laws on the books that are not working because they are either too rigged or too vague. i mean, we've got to fix the way we define terms. we've got to fix the way we proof them. this bill will change the bird. >> according to an equal lights sequal rights study, a woman working full-time made 84 cents to every dollar a man earned but latins make 44 cents for every dollar a white man makes. >> sitting out the race for barbara box' senate seat. that follows weeks of meetings and phone calls. this leaves state attorney general harris as the only major candidate.

kara swisher will interview the president at the end of the day.. >>> meanwhile, mastercard sends to invest in the mastercard safety net. before fischers and processors notice a threat of one. >>> yahoo! is reportedly cutting between 100 and 200 jobs mostly in canada after the layoff in october of 400 employees. >>> hormel foods is said to be in talking with apple farms. >> thank you very much. >>> what a week it's been for the markets and what a week for apple. and a market cap that made history but is the stock growth sustainable, katy stark is with bgig. this is an important break outhere? >> it has been. this month, we've seen apple clear at its november high. right around 120. you could get a higher target out of 130 some that break. that fast approaching that targeted level. but the stock koshts to exhibit positive momentum across all-time highs in intermediate and long-term. and it's starting to feel like we can't go wrong with owning an apple. i think the key of sustainability of this uptrend has been stair stepping higher as opposing to go

and kara swisher and senior reporter perry bacon. thanks for being here.erry, i want to start with you on the ground. this is a big test for jeb bush. he's obviously going to have to walk a fine line when it comes to immigration, common core. what are we expecting this afternoon? >> i think it's going to be rough. you've already had some speakers here one said bush and hillary should run on the same ticket because they have the same positions and there was loud applause for that. donald trump attacked bush loud applause. no matter what he says he's going to get boos today. the key for him is the audience of conservatives nationally more moderate. this is a very conserveative crowd. he doesn't want to embarrass himself is what i think. >> rand paul speaking right now getting a lot of applause as we can hear in the background. have there been anytakeaways from his comments? >> a lot of speakers are trying to focus on isis being the central threat. i was at cpac last year and very little talk about foreign policy. now the view is not only that ice isis is a h

here is how president obama characterized threat from cyber attacks in friday's interview with kara swisher. >> i wouldn't consider them acts of war but i would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft, that are serious and whenever a criminal act like that is state-sponsored it's a problem. >> cyberterrorism that is what this is. they can go after -- we have the laws on the books. sometimes we don't have laws to prosecute these hackers. we do have these laws. if we can show, prosecution can show, government showed they scared a nation, they scared nations terrorizing people that is cyberterrorism. that can be prosecuted as and more than just simple old theft. >> this fits the theme he is afraid to call it fundamentalism as well. this is consistent in his weakness to be honest. >> that is a huge threat. >> very big threat. cheryl: do you think he is being too light about the fact -- >> absolutely. cheryl: a billion bucks? >> there seems to be some type of collusion or whatever between the banks. how can the banks not know that this money was missing? how could they not know t

thanks again, kara swisher. >> in light of the cyber security summit we're looking at the threats yourf you're passionate about doing something about it you can tweet your reps in congress urging them to pass president obama's new cyber security legislative proposal. we have suggested tweets for you on our website. that's ronandaily.msnbc.com. tell us what you're doing to protect against cyber security attacks and put it under the #ronation. just ahead live from new york -- it's friday afternoon but we're marking 40 years of "snl." horactio sands will look at the good and bagd and ugly of one of comedy's most enduring brands. thanks for the ride around norfolk! and i just wanted to say geico is proud to have served the military for over 75 years! roger that. captain's waiting to give you a tour of the wisconsin now. could've parked a little bit closer... it's gonna be dark by the time i get there. geico. proudly serving the military for over 75 years. this is the equivalent of the sugar in one regular soda. and this is one soda a day over an average adult lifetime. but there's a better

co-founders but on stage right now not talking about twitter but medium being interviewed by re/code's kara swisherversation talking about evan williams' latest venture which is medium which he is calling a platform and publisher and talks about how he's using it to try to give people more opportunities to publish. now in great contrast to twitter which is limited to 140 characters, medium allows peoples to post longer form content. he says that it's very key, that, of course, while they all pulled down anything terrible off the site they want to allow peoples to post things that are controversial and proponents of free speech and he spends all of his time trying to make sure that it's really different than what blogger and twitter are, both companies that he cofounded and tried to give people a different way to have a voice in this media landscape. now he did admit recently that they do have some be revenue but it's not a meaningful amount just yet. he hopes to build something very large that will take money and make money and to build what he called a substantial content platform on the internet

. >> at some point alex, though, they do need some new products, new accessories, re/code's kara swisherthe program before us a tech focused shows silicon -- or "squawk alley" made that point which is accurate, right? you need to drive innovation more than ever in these kind of companies, do you not? >> you absolutely do. there's no question about that. but i would argue, gopro has been doing that and that was the secret to their success and achieving 75s% year over year growth in a product category that's been out three years without in a form factor sense a ton has changed but in performance a whole lot and so what i would expect you to get from gopro this year improvements in imaging, we expect you to get the evolution of a cloud strategy, we expect to see the broadening of their live broadcast capabilities, the average content uploading into the cloud and on to youtube and on to new distribution channels like rocco doubling this year. tremendous amount of innovation happening here. totally uncontested brand in our view and we don't see anything on the competitive landscape that comes

. >>> president obama sitting down for a wide ranging interview with re/code editor kara swisher, obama to speak at the white house summit on cyber security. swisher asking about that topic as well as privacy, jobs in the tech industry and in a lighter moment the president's personal use of tech. take a listen. >> do you wear any wearable shirts or health devices or things like that? >> not yet. >> you missed the google glass thing by the way. >> well -- no comment. >> no comment. >> when you -- what devices do you think you would use once you leave office? you like a selfie stick. >> right. as buzzfeed showed, actually the first time i used that when we were in hawaii for vacation i had given my photographer pete suza had a gopro and folks were starting to use selfie sticks so -- >> do you use any other technology? just basically the ipad? >> basically the ipad, although, you know, i don't have a fit bit yet but i work out hard. word is that, you know, these apple watches might -- >> get one right away? >> might be a good companion for my workout. i'm going to see and test it out. i do

co-founder and largest shareholder in and one of its board members is on stage being grilled by kara swisherwilliams in defense of dick costolo saying the ceo of twitter is doing a great job made a lot of changes saying a i'm excited if you look at what they've done over the past few weeks the product announcements. he weighed in on twitter's volatile stock price. saying i think wall street does not have a sophisticated interpretation of what creates value in the world. that's something i'm hoping that will change over time. he said he's not trying to argue with wall street but that he does hope that will change. one other point he makes here, he said i think it's a scary world if all content is on facebook. of course he's referring to twitter as well as his own new publishing platform called medium. back over to you. >> thanks so much. michael block you want to take a stab at that first. >> looking at the stats on twitter and it's up 35% year to date. is that what evan is referring to? it shouldn't be up 35% year to date. i'm not sure. i'm looking at the numbers trades at a triple dijjette

joining us kara swisher co-executive editor at re/code. >> good morning. >> kayla out today.e dow erased almost all losses as walmart has gone positive. let's talk facebook first. first up mark zuckerberg looking smart today. a new note by cohen valuing instagram at $33 billion. remember facebook bought the company for a billion back in 201. the analyst says instagram is a valuable asset for facebook and pegs the company as one of its top picks in 2015. they see maus going to 680 by 2020. >> yeah. >> are we getting over enthusiastic? >> we are. i mean 2020. i

. >> that was president obama talking to re-code executive, kara swisher friday. top executives from google, yahoo! facebook microsoft close to skip obama's white house security summit. providing the second and third ranking sources of campaign cash for obama in 2012. will the snub influence washington policy? joining us is ben and jerry's co-founder former ceo, ben cohen, who is leading a national campaign to help limit the influence of money in politics. good morning. >> hi, how are you doing? >> i imagine an honesty about google or facebook executives and staff directly donating to the obama campaign. that's not what you're up against. >> no, that is what we're up against. >> okay. >> we're up against money and politics essentially our democracy being bought and paid for by corporations and ultrawealthy. >> what are you going to do about stamp it out. this is a stamp, a rubber stamp, and we've got 30,000 people around the country that are stamping paper currency with these messages about getting money out of politics. this is a small part of a much larger movem

hillary clinton talking to kara swisher yesterday.t neutrality because as i understand it it's title two with a lot of changes in it to avoid the worst of the utility regulation, so it's a foot in the door it's a value statement. >> jon steinberg, did she make

listen to what she told kara swisher at a silicon valley conference for women last night. >> apple watch doing fitbit. and i haven't gotten into the apple watch yet. yeah. i'm not in a wearable frame of mind yet. >> all right. >> you know i mean three people have given me a fitbit or a jawbone, and i look at it and i think, do i really want something telling me i should do what i know i should do? >> okay. so maybe hillary clinton isn't big on wearables, but one company tried a novel approach to selling its watch and it may turn out to be the biggest crowd funded project ever and a real threat to the apple watch. job josh lipton joins us with the nuts and bolts on pebble. >> if you needed more proof wearables are red hot, take a look at how much money pebble is raising for its latest wearable. the startup launched a campaign on kickstarter for its new start watch called pebble time and it's proving to be a big hit. some 43,000 backers have already contributed more than $9 million, the fastest funded campaign on kickstarter ever. now, the new start waven is water resistant, features a col

. >> kara swisher was out with a piece on that topic that's getting a lot of buzz though she does note that twitter's co-founder continues to support dick costolo. they reiterated publicly their support for mr. costolo. but does dick costolo start to feel the heat? dennis berman from "the wall street journal" thinks it's time for him to go. why, dennis? >> well look if there is an argument to be made, and i think there is some leeway in that argument, you love to put me in that box so i will argue it but if there's -- >> get out of that box, go ahead. >> that's the simple idea that the company isn't performing up to its expectedations, certainly not up to the stock price. we have seen primarily problems in product execution. they've cycled through three or four products chiefs over the last couple years, and it just hasn't gained traction with the people who matter the most the advertisers. and can i add one more thing, guys? i want to read to you the mission statement that they put out at the end of the last quarter or their product statement. let me read it to you. reach the largest

kara swisher wrote an article late january suggesting that the advertising side might get merged. >>y? >> it does. this is an exciting moment for the company. we've been hard at work building the business last two years, advertising business scaled our sales teal to nearly 100 people. all running out of our organization, our office in new york. it's gotten to a point where we've established those ad products in the marketplace and we're ready to take those out there with yahoo! and sell those products, those networks together an opportunity to hopefully do more bigger business and offer more bigger platforms to those marketers and brands. i'm excited about that this year. >> thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me. i'll be more informed next time. >> appreciate it. >> brian roberts on line one. you'll be back. >> when we come back jim cramer's going to break down earnings of the morning. stick around. "squawk box" will be right back. there's something happening right here in this country. it's the sound of america... working with american materials... in american factories.

. >> reporter: and in answer to questions from kara swisher of recode a partner by nbc universal. >>lking to a lot 6 people thinking through -- >> reporter: last time clinton played down her gender to prove she was tough enough to be commander in chief. this time she'll play up her gender focusing on equal pay for women, family leave. issues she's fought for all her life. >> we all cheered at patricia arquette's speech at the oscars because she's right. it's time to have wage equality once and for all. >> reporter: clinton is also trying to blunt criticism from liz weth bar elizabeth warren. >> i think that's what we've got to see. i'm going to hear what she wants to run on and what she says she wants to do. >> all right. andrea reports clinton is road testing themes of economic populism trying to appeal to liberal democrat whose wish they had more candidates to choose from. that's the problem i think she has to somehow contain and that road testing ideas. she can't look like she's road testing ideas. she have to feel them. >> good message last night. patricia arquette's speech gende