and les moonves, he's no fool.hat he said about cbs is what everybody in the business is thinking. everybody's covering trump because it gets great ratings. newswoman: donald trump equals ratings gold. newsman: fox's first gop debate this season shattered every record all at once with 24 million viewers. and that's making a lot of money for the networks. newsman: cnn reportedly charged 40 times its usual rate for ads during the three-hour extravaganza. 40 times the usual rate. that's $200,000 for a 30-second ad. i mean, i guess that explains why wolf blitzer has new rims. you know? i... damn, blitzer! back at it again with the news van! so whenever the media cover donald trump, they make a lot of money, and it's equally true whether they're covering news events, like debates, or non-events that just contain the word "trump." newsman: hold on a second, hold on a second. here's donald trump, i think, a picture of him. here he is... newswoman: that is an airfield that we may see the trump plane land... we've been watc

les moonves is preparing for cbs' future after sumner redstone.ntrols it through a company called national amusements which owns 80% of the cbs voting shares. when redstone dies or becomes incapacitated, the trust will pass to seven trustees including his daughter. moonves wants to make sure he can maintain his plans to grow the company without those trustees putting up roadblocks in the boardroom. cbs talked with investment bankers about how the company should shift control away from the national movements by collapsing the dual class share structure. a source says it's one of the options that cbs is investigating. now, cbs itself declined to comment. working in moonves' favor and one reason he may not need to execute such a plan is that cbs is up 18% year to date and up 110% over the past five years under les moonves. now, perhaps we'll hear more from cbs when they report their earnings on tuesday, but for now, still kelly, no comment from the company. >> we look forward to more next week. thank you. >>> this week the department of justice gave

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we'll do it, and we named a price and i said i'm not going to call up les moonves it will be twice ast price from les. >> wow. yeah. >> two weeks later called me up, said, i have that price. >> there you go. that's his strong suit. >> we did it. into it shortly and calls me says, your people, they're no good. this isn't working out at all. you take over, full executive thing. the right to hire and fire. thank you. pulled it in. ratings that first year were stupendous. much -- it was -- >> trump-ward. >> 40% 50% higher than in years. he delivered. >> talk about your book "the right stuff." you've had quite a life and chronicle it here. great successes, and some heartbreaking moments, particularly when your first grandchild, christian, was diagnosed with autism. you write very vividly about what a scary time that was. >> we were totally caught off guard. had no idea what autism was and certainly had no idea how it puts somebody in a dark corner. meaning, that you don't have insurance, you don't have a method to deal with them, you don't have proven drugs or technologies, and you get iso

but there are a lot of -- les moonves, very highly respected. >> you don't think they're going anywhere? >> not yet. but these are names that get tossed around. >> is there anybody else inside disney that you think has a shot? >> well, the two major candidates are off the table. >> former cfo. >> right. and then jay rissoula left when tom was given the coo position. unclear if there's another internal candidate. you have to think, is there really another -- if they had these issues with somebody like tom staggs, would there be anybody else? >> we mentioned before sheryl sandberg from the board of disney. is that someone you would see stepping into that role? >> certainly a possibility. who knows if she'd want to the leave her current position, which is a pretty great position. >> right. >> all right. we will get more color from a guy who knows a lot about it. >> 7:00 a.m. jim stewart. wrote the book on them. >> not only did he write the book on disney, he actually did write a book on disney. >> yeah, he wrote the book. he wrote a book on disney. >> there you go. >> one of the great sort