michael wolf, what took so long?ld a moat around windows and they used to say that windows was the first priority. and now they are recognizing a couple things. we are moving to a mobile world. there is also a world where there is consumerization, where consumers decide what they are going to use. companies -- there is bring your own device. people are bringing their own iphone. ella project nod or effort or is this a group project? >> it has been in the pipeline for a long time but it is a fortunate time for him to be the person to announce it. microsoft is dealing with a multiplatform world. >> can you be a company that builds moats like microsoft and -moatifies and effectively tries to go the android route and be inclusive? >> they don't really have a choice to do 60% of their operating profits today come from office, not from windows. more of the world will move to ios. what they are announcing is really for apple devices, because apple devices dominate in the workplace, not android devices. >> it is a momentous

. >> has michael wolf ever said anything nice about anyone? >> what did he say about her? voiceless ceos to shame. >> he said nice things about roger ales not too long ago. >> you're kidding. wow, i underestimated. >> i love him. >> he's incendiary. >> because there's an underlying truth to everything he says. he says it sometimes he doesn't say it in the nicest way possible. he's come after me and others. there is something remarkably bright, ultimately i would argue, about what he does say. >> you feel some commiseratation. >> all true. all true. >> you talked about it in your column and book. >> i like to think it's true. sometimes i make mistakes, we all do. >> my final four. as the fed tapers its bond purchases will credit finally start to expand? joining us now, squawk master petish fisher. he is also a senior fellow at dartmouth college, which is -- we'll be in a death match with alan krueger. you're a cornell guy. >> former cornell. we both graduated if big red. >> senior director at blockrock institute and a maybe of aig's board of directors. professor alan kruege

michael? >> reporter: wolf, it is interesting.n here as it has for the last couple of days after clearing out for a few hours today. the people down in the square behind me in independence square, they are still there. the barricades are still up. the speeches are still being made. prayers are being said. the national anthem is sung with regularity. there are prayers going on right now behind me. it is interesting, wolf, today, saw a lot of people from here and in kiev. outside of the capital coming in with their cameras very well-dressed. all that sort of protested tourism, taking photographs honoring those that have died in these protests. the fears still exist here and angered too at what has happened in crimea and what continues to happen there and the fear that were things to spread into other parts of eastern ukraine. the politicians keep talking in europe and elsewhere, they are just waiting to see what happens next. the ukrainian parliament did meet today. they had some discussions about how they could help their troops in

wolf's gift was summing up. now michael has done likewise by taking us inside the most powerful address in the world. the book is called "the house of outrageous fortune." it concerns one manhattan address that has housed the likes of lloyd fine and denzel washington and a-rod and sting and jeff gordon. one sold for $88 million. 15 cpw writes, gross is the most successful, insanely expensive tie con-stuffed real estate development of the 21st century. the book opens with a bidding war between two titans. >> icahan was the backer. he was the aging lion of the finance and dan is the younger breed of cat. icahan wanted two apartments on the 39th floor. penthouses. he did not want to pay the price. $45 million. lobe came in and paid the price. icahan went ballistic. >> are they both new money? >> i like to see it old money versus new money. i think it represents two points of view and two kinds of wealth. >> what was the tipping point that made this the "it" building where people at that level wanted to live? >> a whistle came

. >> michael smerconish, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >>> and don't miss the but of "smerconish," that's the name of the program, saturday morning, 9:00 a.m., eastern. michael, we will all be watching. good luck with the new show. >> thank you. >>> there was a big selloff of global markets yesterday as the ukraine crisis escalated. later i'll tell you if the sell offdeepens. >>> up next, we hear glimmer of optimism about the peace threat in the middle today from israel. what the visiting israeli prime minister has said here in washington. [ male announcer ] this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪ yup. another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? ♪ for my pain, i want my aleve. ♪ [ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap. ttdd# 1-800-345-2550 can take you in many directions. searching for trade

michael of the "times." do you as a result of this, sir, well maybe when wolf's ready for this, but do you as a result of this, have a preferred option for why this took place? >> i have no idea. and given all the things that have come out in the past few days it would be knee enaive of even speculate on that. one thing we talked about earlier was there were a lot of lithium batteries on this plane. i know you're reporting that they're looking at the batteries. we've been told there were a substantial number of lithium batteries on the plane. what does that mean and did that have anything to do with it? >> as far as the lithium batteries in the cargo hold, michael, and i think this is significant, if there was some sort of explosion or fire, lithium bat ris have been blamed for that in other crashes, how can the plane fly for five hours or so? even if there was a large box of lithium batteries in the cargo hold, it doesn't explain that. chuck barnett, i'll come back to you. we'll get your take on this new information. the breaking news we're covering in our special "situation room" report, much more right aft

one was that wolf blitzer had michael oren on cnn and presented oren as, you know, our new cnn analyst. and michael oren is a former ambassador for israel, and he is a -- moved to israel from, i think, upstate new york or do finish and a true believer. i mean, a zionist zealot really. and here he is presented as an analyst on cnn by wolf blitzer who i think is someone who's waking up on issue but used to work at aipac or for a journal that was associated with aipac as a young man. so, and oren was saying -- i should emphasize what oren was saying, he was saying that palestinians must not go -- if the two-state peace process fails, palestinians must not go to international forums, they must not exercise that -- so he was saying these people have no rights in international fora, they should not take any of their powers, and he's saying this to wolf blitzer without contradiction. and this is presented as analysis of the two-state solution over the peace process. the same day i was sent two links to hadassa magazine which i hadn't really read until that day, i have to say. i think i have t

michael, your thoughts. we're about to close out the hour and go to wolf blitzer. >> i think the size of the pieces, everythingeard in the last half hour about this breaking news from chinese gives good cause to believe we've now perimeterized the area to focus our search. that's a huge relief to everybody to be able to at least be able to look for this. i think it's a high chance that they're going to confirm this is pieces of the wreckage. >> and the information of course not expected to be positive. we expect this to be the site of a plane crash. >> no good news in that. >> but there is some potentially some resolution. >> aviation safety standpoint positive news, for the families and everybody else it may bring a close to a chapter that's painful. >> michael goldfarb formerly of the federal aviation administration, china this releasing these images from sunday of three immense floating octobers that appear to be from an airplane, one 43 by 59, one 79 by 72 feet. now to wolf blitzer. >>> the breaking news, following the mystery of flight 370. china releasing satellite images of the suspect crash scene. they

michael hawkins for that. you can hear more about gloria's story this sunday night 9:00 p.m. eastern time. have a great weekend. thanks for watching. wolftarts now. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. there are new theories emerging right now about what may have happened to that missing malaysia airlines jet seven d

wolf? >> athena, thank you. athena jones reporting. >>> let's bring in rene marsh, miles o'brien, "the new york times" reporter michael schmidt and tom fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi. if they find the black box -- and miles, you've covered these stories for a long time -- i assume in this case -- and this is the black box even though it's orange. i assume in this case the critical information they find it even after the pinger stops going will be retrievable? >> yes, there's an unlimited shelf life essentially for that. it's kind of baked into it. it doesn't need to have an active battery in order for that date to be recoverable. just because there's no pinger doesn't mean there's no data on the black box. >> tom, you're the assistant fbi director. i've gotten questions from viewers, if they get this black box, who will have custody of it, will malaysian airlines or some other country like the united states, for example, have first crack at it? >> malaysian government is running the case, it's their case. they'll decide if they want to try to do something with that box themselves or whether they'll turn it over for nts

michael hawkins for that. you can hear more about gloria's story this sunday night 9:00 p.m. eastern time. have a great weekend. thanks for watching. wolf starts now. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. there are new theories emerging right now about what may have happened to that missing malaysia airlines jet seven days after it simply vanished into thin air. here's the latest information we're getting. u.s. officials say an automatic system on the plane was pinging satellites for hours after air traffic controllers lost all contact with the aircraft. investigators think the plane continued flying during that time. a senior u.s. official says there's a significant likelihood potential at least it's now at the bottom of the ocean but no conclusions can yet be reached. a reuters report suggests the plane was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course towards the andaman islands near india. there's heightened suspicions that increase the opportunity that foul play may have been involved. and the search area for the missing plane has expanded further into the indian ocean as well as the south china sea. the united s

michael holmes, cnn, kiev, ukraine. >> the drama still continuing to unfold. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolfgton. let's step into the "crossfire" right now with hosts paul begala and newt gingrich. guys? >> wolf, conservatives are here in washington right now holding auditions out at cpac. >> and fortunately for us they're auditions for scenes in the "star wars" bar scene. >>> coming up on "crossfire," a republican casting call. >> we don't get to govern if we don't win. >> it's time for a little rebellion on the battlefield of ideas. >> conservatives are shopping for our next president. should she be worried? >> four americans were murdered at benghazi. with all due respect to hillary clinton, it does make a difference. >> on the left, paul begala. on the right, newt gingrich. in the "crossfire," a hillary clinton supporter and a clinton detractor. who can beat hillary clinton? is she really going to run? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm paul begala on the left. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. in the "crossfire" tonight, guests with a stark political divide. the re

michael, interestingly enough, there are no terrorist groups taking responsibility for what happened with this airplane. from your reading of this, does this seem like the work of possibly a lone wolf that was a deliberatele criminal act or a suicide mission? >> luke, i don't see a great likelihood that this is an organized terrorist group behind this. i say it because of are where the plane was flying, the route it was on, the region and the lack of any indication from any intelligence service in the world. and any credible claim of oh responsibility. i think all of those things push us in the direction of it's likely being one or maybe two but not part of a larger network on the plane. figuring out what the motivation is for that, we still don't know what happened. so understanding the motivation, think, of any actors involved, it's still very difficult to say. >> something that's alarming to me is if this is a suicide mission by a pilot, we have seen it with commercial planes before. they went on for the duration of the plane's fuel. it went on for seven hours. we know the flight was airborne. if it is a suicide mission, that's pure speculation, why carry it on that long? >> it'

usa today, mike wolf saying mary barra gets it, putting rivals to shame in terms of her level of can der. >> i thought it was a good column. i like michaely much. michael wolff is ahead of the crowd, thinking where this is going to be two, three weeks from now. i think he's going to be right. in the interim, pain is legion, if you own the stock. >> did you see "divergent"? >> no that's a burger movie, one of the more talented directors out there. i was not surprised to see this. my daughter, you know, texts me, please do not see this without me, i bought her the book for the holidays. this is one that people are saying "hunger games ii," wait to see. mr. burger's a great director. >> basically chatter a new franchise afoot. >> there is. divergent, the third book is not as strong. hunger games got better and better. butting looking i think people are hungry for this cat kniss number two, james dean, rebel without a cause. >> cisco not moving in reaction to that story about getting into the cloud. >> yeah. cisco's regarded as problematic entity. it's not cheap enough to get adherence, part of the cheap tech thing. it doesn't have growth th