joining us right now in a first on cnbc interview is autonation ceo mike jackson also autonation incominghard to imagine automation without you as the ceo been there for 20 years now. and the stock has exploded under your watch so let's talk a little bit about your decision to leave and decision to bring in carl. i guess that wasn't your decision, that was the board >> good morning, becky first, i'm thrilled to hand the baton of leadership of autonation to carl liebert it really is a joy this was a process which i kicked off on your show middle of september it was our -- my board did an outstanding job. we had tremendous interest in the position and down the stretch i became involved with the top candidates and concluded that carl was uniquely prepared to lead autonation he has the unanimous support of the board. and i might add also our two largest and long-standing shareholders cascade and esl which combined own 40% of the shares of autonation what makes carl so special and i told you back then first and foremost whoever is going to be the ceo of autonation will be an outstanding leader

we welcome mike jackson, autonation chairman and ceo, and ceo.lever, the incoming i will start with yout expecting this. we knew you were stepping down. what led you to carl? mike: i'm absolutely thrilled to hand the baton to carl. he has a unique set of skills delete autonation into its next chapter. the as the unanimous support of the board and the unanimous support of our largest shareholders. he is an outstanding business leader. he has an ability to learn new industry. andas done retail at scale he is a master of building digital platforms. capabilities we have to some extent in autonation but there is a tremendous opportunity to take it to another level. that is why i'm excited to hand the baton to carl. david: you're coming off someone who has had a successful run. what are you going to be focused on as you come in? carl: it is easy for me to say is to look to mike as founder 2.0 taking over the company and this great brand called autonation. first and foremost it is spending a lot of time in our stores with our associates engaging in this idea of culture and where we are going.

long-time ceo mike jackson said today he's goip to s down from the car retailer march 11th and he'll be replaced by carl 's liebert w the financial officer at usaa. separately the company reported earnings andue below estimates. shares of auto nation fell 3% today to $37.23. >>> wayfair had a banner holiday season topping quarterly earnings and revenue estimates. thonline furniture retailer also reported a 15% surge in its active customer count. shares hit their highest level since wayfair'sipo back in 2014. it was unearly 28% today to $149.95. >>> canadian miningomny barrett gold is considering a hostile bid for rival newmont mining for $19 billion. that potential merger would be one of the largest mining deals ev and would create making it the largest gold peducer in world. late today, newmont responded to those reportsaying its own $10 billion acquisition of gold corp announced in january was in its view enough to produce solid growth in the future. rrick shares fell 2% and newmont shares were up 3%. >>> stamps.com is ending its exclusiveartnership with the u.s. postal service. th

let's bring in general motors marketing vp mike jackson who helped coca-cola, pepsi and coors, now runsovider to the automotive industry and brands mike, as somebody that once worked for coors, start there with this attack from anheuser-busch in terms of using corn syrup, do you think it was effective? >> i thought it was hilarious because for the most part everyone is looking around the room trying to figure out beer, does beer have corn syrup? it was a little bit of positioning from budweiser's perspective to take on miller and coors in that spot i don't know how effective it was. i clearly don't believe corn syrup is an issue from someone that wants to enjoy their favorite beverage. >> especially not if they have a soda next to it and drinking that watching the super bowl which a lot of people probably did. one of the things that struck me about the latest super bowl commercials, i don't miss the sexist and crass in this slate there were some bad ones, but there were good ones, and good ones didn't fall back on old troeps >> a lot of brands did a good job, positioning themselves arou

not getting dinged right now up 1 one-third percent meanwhile one of tesla's long time critics mike jacksonone last swing at tesla reiterating past criticisms that musk's over promising on his autonomous vehicle ambitions is almost" unethical." ross gerber is ready to swat down that criticism the long time tesla bull owns the stock and a tesla and joining the discussion wall street journal automotive reporter tim higgins. the firefighters in davey, florida where this happened said they poured huge amounts of water on the fire and it appeared to be out and multiple times the lithium battery would reignite. how should tesla tackle this situation? >> well it seems to be a by-product of the fires with batteries that are harder to put out, but just the same if you hit a car and the gas goes everywhere on the road and it catches fire, it's pretty hard to put out too. it's definitely different challenges in dealing with electric vehicles, moving forward, with accidents that we have currently with gas vehicles but keep in mind, gas vehicle fires happen every day. i think it's, i think it was 100 so

meanwhile, mike jackson warning president trump against raising tariffs on vehicles and auto parts.on bloomberg. >> we should be clear that auto tariffs are the nuclear weapons of trade. they will make steel and aluminum look like a company picnic. hopefully it never comes to that, it is all a matter of leverage and brinksmanship are you -- brinksmanship. >> he also had harsh words for elon musk. >> happening particularly in the gold industry -- the deal would make the company the largest gold producer in the world. merger, sopleted its is there more coming? theing us is nick collins, ceo of the south african company, gold fields. of fomo, any fear of missing out? should you get in on the consolidation? reallyave a number of good products that we are bringing to account over the next six months. we have been preparing ourselves to have a much better company for the long term. longer life and lower costs, so we do not feel compelled to do anything. a lot of these merger activities are driven by other factors. lisa: like what? >> i guess people are running out of things to mine, there

i'm going to hand off the mike to hallie jackson who is in d.c.. >> i was going to say, don't go anywhere just yet. we now are waiting to see the president live in the rose garden. putting an end to one political fight, starting another. the last time he was in that spot outside the oval was exactly three weeks ago. then it was to announce a temporary deal to fully fund the government and end the longest shutdown in u.s. history. today the big e headline, he's going to announce the decision to use his presidential powers to declare a national emergency. that will let him make an end run around congress and redirect federal money to get more for the border wall he wants. the white house is framing it as a promise kept. you know opponents have a promise of their own. they're going to fight it and make the case this is legally and constitutionally out of bounds. we have a team of reporters from the white house to the capitol hill to the border. our team of analysts as well as we wait for the president to speak live. i want to go straight to capitol h

mike shirky has 12 grandchildren. he is rarely spotted around town afterhours because he like to hightail it home to jackson to have dinner with his wife, sue.

mike has 12 grandchildren. around town spotted after hours because he likes to hightail it home to jackson, have -- to have dinner with his wife, sue. and chris has three sons. she loves tennis. when she gets home, she has a phenomenal specimen -- spouse, chef bob. families.e we all care about our kids and our grandkids futures. we all want what is best for our communities and our state. and it is important for us to remember, the enemy is not the person across the aisle. the enemy is apathy. the enemy is extreme partisanship. the enemy is self interests. when we stand together as ichiganders, or mischa michiganians, if you insist. we can build bridges and ensure that michigan is the home for opportunity for generations to come. after my inauguration, i received messages of support and encouragement from people across our state. one of them was the granddaughter of sophie williams. a former labor leader sent me a bowtie, green with white polkadots. and a coin from the opening of the mackinac bridge. and holding the coin between my -- betweena moving my hands was a moving experience. when you read it, it says buil

. >> dana: we just reported as mike tobin said that mark geragos will be representing smollett. famously he represented michael jackson, scott peterson, gary condit. does this tell you anything about the situation that smollett is in? >> smollett may be in trouble because he got one of the best criminal defense lawyers in the country to really head this criminal defense team. what he has to, at this point, what jussie has to do, is make sure he protects himself and his future. what we're talking about in reference to criminal defense and criminal law, you're talking about time. you're talking about jail for lying to officers or lying under oath. that will be big problems for him. >> dana: apparently he's fine with his job. 20th century fox putting out this statement. jussie smollett continues to be a consummate professional on set and he is not being written out of the show. in some ways, could he go through all of this and not be punished or have any consequences in any way? >> we have to remember, you're presumed innocent. this is the very beginning of the criminal justice process. a person is presumed innocent unti

mike shirky has 12 grandchildren. he is rarely spotted around town afterhours because he like to hightail it home to jackson to have dinner with his wife, sue. and chris has three sons. she loves tennis, and when she gets home, she's got this phenomenal spouse, chef bob, who has got something amazing waiting for her. we all have families. we all care about our kids and our grandkids' futures. we all want what's best for our communities and our state, and it is important for us to remember the enemy is not the person across the aisle. the enemy is apathy. the enemy is extreme partisanship. the enemy is self-interest. when we stand together as michigand michiganders, or michiganians, if you insist, we can get the job done for the people of our state. we can build bridges and ensure that michigan is the home for opportunity for generations to come. after my inauguration, i received messages of support and encouragement from people across our state. one of them was the granddaughter of soapy williams, governor gene wills yam. a former labor leader sent me a soapy era williams bow tie, green with white polka dots and april com

jackson costume. i look back now and regret that i did not understand the harmful legacy of an action like that. >> mike futrell, what is your reaction to that defense? what would you say to ralph northam he should be doing? >> i'm very, very disappointed of this process. to tell you when i was elected in 2013, ralph and i had been able to build an amazing relationship and to watch all of this come to pass has been one of the most difficult things ever in the 3500,000 people of color of virginia who voted for him are just as shocked as i am individually. but here's the thing, ralph's initial thought process was correct. we saw all of the reports ralph was going to resign and step aside and fairfax was going to step in. after a night of sleeping on it and getting into a room with a lot of bad advisers, they made the decision they were going to reverse course and say now that wasn't me. >> which story do you believe? >> there's no doubt in my mind that has to be him. he said it himself, i'm going off of his words, i'm not going off my words, he said it himself, that was him. what happens when people get s

mike is in mississippi, a parent. caller: good morning. i lived in jackson.r as the teachers and , whyistration, in jackson are they paid so much and the teachers paid less? is an opinion i want why are industries not investing in schools? superintendence pays something people target and are upset about. one of the things for urban districts like jackson, which has a lot of turnover at the superintendent level, school boards have a hard time retaining superintendent positions. they are very political. it's a very difficult job to do. are going tocts teacher salaries. they are not going to overhead staff. even if you reduce the superintendent salary or reduce office staff, i have been in offices where there are no , there is no professional development for teachers, even if you get rid of vast majority of money goes to teacher salaries. that is something to keep in mind as we debate these topics. host: good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. problem giving teachers pay. status, have a low pay teachers come in, but they are not qualified. kids, are they qua

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a tribute to michael jackson, the same year that this photo was posted and that someone may have called him coonman as a nickname which dates back to the racial era. let me have mike. quite an interesting afternoon in tv. >> reporter: well, you're absolutely right and there were several protesters here throughout the morning and then they came back many of them listening to the governor as he held his press conference standing just outside the fence here and what the governor was clearly trying to do was bring ambiguity to an unambiguous statement yesterday when he said it was, in fact, him. there's no way to divine that, to parse that, to tear that apart or break it down in any other way. he said now he's referring to the content of the page calling it horrifying time and time again and that, quote, the reason i so vividly don't remember that is that it didn't happen. the problem that he's going to have from a political standpoint is simply this, the governor has been on the phone over the course of the morning and presumably last night talking to fellow democrats across the state, talking to democrats within the state legislature and national democrats as well.