bill ackman should read matt levine. >> you have described this as a seminal deal going back to the 1980's. 's idea.is levine we go back to the hostel, true hostile takeover. >> you wonder why more people don't do this and whether it will open the floodgates. no third front-page story, longer union-free. pilots voting -- to join air line pilots association. 70% voting in favor. , there will be contract talks. investors don't like it because the stock was up 2% and once the word got out about the vote, the stock dropped. >> why do i feel squishy if i know my pilot is making $37,000 a year? >> you would rather they make $80,000? >> well, i don't want to pay for it. did we say this on the show like a year ago? >> what? >> airlines are ridiculous. >> with the add-on fees. >> i don't like that. --i don't fly, but >> we scaled back. to saveat a g5 or g4 money. those are the front-page stories. >> that's good start of on the american economy -- let's get started on the american economy. ellen zentner joins us. mortimer singer is with us as well. ellen, i want to rip up the script. they talk abo

. >> of course, when you have that kind of screwed me from bill ackman, matt levine wrote about this.k at cash flow, you have to have confidence of more cash in the future, but it is also something that you do if you focus too intensively support the stock in the short term. if you want evidence that it is more of a tug-of-war than an earnings story, this release is a good place to find it. what do you think about that? >> the companies doing what they should be doing, supporting the stock price with share buybacks. there is nothing that unusual about it, given the circumstance . the company is being very transparent that it is a priority. to tell whathard the endgame is. some catalysts are coming up, though. bill ackman has an event on friday. also, the investigations are ongoing. we will see how many shares they buyback in the future. ,> we have these investigations plus this documentary that you mentioned. what would be the impact of this documentary on, say, law enforcement? >> it is hard to say. i am sure it will be entertaining. they will be bringing some employees in the did no

matt miller, in for adam johnson. the problem and the solution. we will start with richard levin faced his share of challenges. he was president of yale for 20 years. one of the first to try online education back when the internet was just getting popular. levin is taking another crack at it. he's the ceo of an online education company that partners with major universities to offer classes that anyone on the planet can take for free. he went down the long and bumpy road with charlie rose. >> when we started in 2000 with stanford and oxford, we thought our market was our own alumni. we narrow cast -- then we opened it to the public and the bandwidth was not there. this is still an era in which your videos are jerking around. it had that problem. we did not have the right model for making it work. we did not have the high degree of interactivity. you watched a lecturer give a lecture and maybe there was some visuals, but that was it. the next thing we did was open yale courses that were great. but few people watched and were streaming in. the materials from the course were distribu

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