. >>> les moonves responded to pundits who claim stephen colbert has a liberal bias. moonves stated at a conference on monday that colbert is much more moderate than people think he is. >>> and tv's highest paid star will make her primetime debut later this month. judge judy sheindlin will be in a special that will examine new court cases and her rise to daytime tv stardom. she is one wealthy person, though. >> i didn't even understand how wealthy she was until i found out. number one show. >> i know, yes. >> every local station bids on her show and she's cashing in. >> it is a staple. so true. i'm richard lui. this is "early today." we hope it is just your first stop of the day right here on nbc. >>> leading the news in the washington post, hundreds of kidnapped nigerian school girls reportedly sold as brides to militants for $12, relatives say. the post cautions it could not independently verify those claims. the girls were taken by armed militants from their dormitory in mid-april. >>> on nbcnews.com, new york teen accepted to eight ivy league school picks yale. he

les moonves is number two. i know a lot of people that would pay les moonves that much money.you want go to his party to. >> they're printing money over there. that is hard. sometimes it's bad corporate governance. sometimes it's market. >> les under cbs the stock went up 70% last year. because les' pay package is heavily weighted towards stock, it's not a surprise he that he got a pay bump and is one of the best paid ceos in the country. >> sumner redstone likes to line his own pocket so he has paid the ceos of viacom and cbs which he controls extraordinary amounts of money for a long period of time action even when the stock wasn't going up 70%, because that way he could pay himself more. i think les moonves is great but i'm not sure $65 million a year is the right number for any ceo. >> gene, it looks like donny will still be invited to les's parties. what about you, do you want to comment about les moonves and whether he deserves his money or not. >> i personally do, but i'm not commenting, though. >> i've always loved les moonves. i did, i loved him. >> and how much does

he met with cbs chief les moonves but turned down the job because he feared he would get bored with thatx things up should have kept it to himself. a little rude to stephen colbert. >>> emma watson, she gets to graduate from brown university where she earned a degree in english literature. >>> there may be a new love in aaron rodgers' life. rumors are swirling that he's dating olivia munn. the two were spotted in malibu acting like quite the couple. i hate being aaron rodgers. might be great to be michael sam. the oprah network will produce a reality series based on him. it will look at the life of the first openly gay player drafted to the nfl. time will tell if the series alienates michael sam's teammates as lamar odom's show did to him. that show was, yeah, mixed reviews. >>> justin timberlake is doing his best michael jackson impression to the music video "never felt so good." it was co-written by veteran songwriter paul anka. ♪ ♪ baby love never felt so fine ♪ ♪ and i doubt it was ever mine ♪ >> i'm not sure. what do you think? >> i think it shows off how talented he is, in case you

reganmer coanchor trish spoke with president and ceo les move this -- les moonves.ot of ground. he is excited about football. that is a big win. joel mchale -- there have been lots of talk of him being the new host for "the late late show." that was making its way around the internet after les' wife twitted a picture of them. everybody said that is going to be it. he cleared up some of that. he said that was the first time he had met joel mchale. they might have discussions but there was nothing in the works. the other thing he said, neil patrick harris had gone on howard stern recently and said bhat actually the colbert jo for "the late show" had been offered to him. andmoonves cleared that up said it was not so formerly offered. there might be a variety show. those were a few things we cleared up. the other interesting thing is that cbs news.com is going to be launched as a 24/7 -- >> big change. ll be there effort to supersede cable. as we speak about digital, aereo comes to mind. that has been a big story. we spoke a little about aereo and the supreme court argu

moonves spoke directly to that yesterday.o what he said. >> we shifted down from it, needs to six comedies. afterl still have 4 football is over, but having thursday night football gives us some flexibility. we will open the season with big bang, normally on thursday, on monday night. >> they have a longer drama series. it is sort of like, do not look over here, but look at the football. is that the right strategy, do you think? >> it is because of the numbers football skit. some of the football is the highest rated show on television for the third straight year. the problem with football, once it is over, it is so hard to replace. viewing patterns have been set and you can never get the ratings boost that football will give you. in this case, it is eight weeks. they will move "the big bang theory" to monday night and then set the comedy block. does tell you a lot about how the television industry is changing. the more event programming, that is a theme, change in the focus on comedy, what else? >> more miniseries, limited se

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moonves gotnvest -- $32 million in cash last year. in cash. he got about $67 million in total pay.f of that was cash. ceo got about $18.5 million in cash. verizon and at&t pay their ceo's only about $1.5 million in cash. the rest is typically in equity awards. >> how does the solution to peer group compensation settle out? can you fix it? >> you can. some said you just have to adjust for that. if you know you are using bigger group,es in your peer maybe take your pay down a notch and adjust for that differential in size that you have. one expert told me that in about $5's case, billion in revenue, it is hard for that size company to find companies like it. so you have to use bigger companies. it is about adjusting downward and being cognizant of your size. >> is that something that is probably going to be the norm now? are folks going to take a harder look at that? adjusting downward, that might not be with the folks making $32 million want to hear. >> we are in a new era with executive compensation. howstors are looking at these compensation programs are structured. >> also, board

les moonves was second. $1.4 million is the average. the median household is $51,000 in 2012.o put that first number and third number on the same screen. it is a tale of two different jobs. the guy at the top and the rest of us. >> we have been discussing this. i submit, i am the boss of nothing. >> you are the boss of your mouth. you are the only one who can control what comes out of your mouth. >> at this hour, that is questionable. >>> donald sterling's fight to keep the clippers. sterling blasts the league and the process. he says the nba is violating its constitutional rights and hasn't treated others the same way for making similar offensive comments. what he calls similar offensive comments. team owners are set to meet on his future. in a statement, if they vote to sustain the charges, his interest in the clippers will be terminated and the team sold. in the meantime, his wife, shelly sterling, she is working to try to sell the team, but received no formal offers, yet. >> there will be offers. >> big, big offers. >> a campus in mourning remembering the six students murd

then from cbs, les moonves with $65.6 million.e number one, the head of an oil field services company, who took home $68.2 million. if you're making that kind of money, this might be a good get away for you. a travel company in the united kingdom is offering $1.3 million drinking tour around the globe. 40 days, ten stops from u.s. to monaco to australia. here is just part of the drink menu. collection of champagne bottles that cost more than half a million dollars. $10,000 martini that comes with its own diamond. along with some of the world emost expensive whiskey, te kqua and rum. only one couple can take this trip. so get it at the low price of $1.3 mill. >>> a kolcollege student becomi the youngest to fly around the world. and not an easy route. we will show you where he is flying, when we talk to him live, next on fox news channel. (vo) watching. waiting. for that moment, where right place meets right time. and when i find it- i go for it. (announcer) at scottrade, we share your passion for trading. that's why we give you the

you have anthony petrello coming in at whopping $68.2 million, and the head of cbs leslie moonves atlion, and richard adkerson at 55.3 million, and so the median pay package for a ceo rose above the eight-figure mark for the first time this year which means that the top job at a typical large company earned a record $10.5 million which is an increase of 9% from 2012. to put it in perspective for you, because there is a lot of the figures here, a ceo now makes about 257 times the average worker's salary, to just get your head around that, and it is up sharply from 2099 which is a lot. and the top highest female is carol mirowitz the head of marshalls and t.j. x. x.? and it is just an extra zero than you and i, right? thank you, mandy drury. we will be back with congress mman levin. and no added artificial flavors. we've come a long way. and whatever's ahead, we'll be there for each other. naturally. purina cat chow naturals. [ ding dong ] [ male announcer ] aarp members get a lot. like discounts on gifts from 1-800-flowers.com... oh... [ male announcer ] savings on roadside assistance

now, ceo les moonves has already said that if they win in the supreme court, cbs will seriously considerns. sue? >> morgan, thank you very much. we'll wait to see what some of those numbers look like. >>> fed chair janet yellen optimistic about the economy but says we need to keep a close watch on housing. diana olick joins us from washington with some of the reasons why. >> reporter: hi, sue. two reasons, because home prices are soaring, at the same time mortgage credit is locked up tight. how is that possible? cold cash. all cash sales soared to a record 42.7% in q1 of this year, up from just over 19% a year ago, according to a new report from realtytrack. cash makes up nearly two-thirds of the market in much of florida. and take a look at some of the other markets where more than half of the sales are all cash. new york, columbia, south carolina, memphis, detroit, atlanta and las vegas. all right, so who's using all this cash? smaller, individual investors, but the realtors are now saying that downsizing baby boomers are also playing with cash more as well. apparently now that home pr

last -- lesspoke to moonves. >> they are really excited about thursday night football. he felt it was worth it. we did get a chance to clear up some rumors that were out there, such as who might be taking over late show echo -- show." one of the names that had come up was joel mchale, and part of d was that it surfaces nves wifen, les moo tweeted out a photo of the three of them. neil patrick harris is another name that had surfaced. >> he said something about this. >> he did. risk, when he told howard stern that he then offered the -- neil patrick harris, when he told howard stern that he had been offered the job, that was not the truth. >> we asked him what were the possibilities -- do you want to come to a new series, we knew letterman might be open, 12:30 might be open, late-night. it was a general topic. per se.ot offered it we would love to have him back in the family in any way he wants to do it. >> let me ask about "the late late show." >> there are no conversations underway. joel mchale is a wonderful talent. we would love to have him in some way but there was

>> i think part of the jimmy moonve iovine mistake is that hs very respected.ften the edges. >> apple has been defensive when it comes to music after upending the industry with downloaded music. and -- does jimmy iovine theyre coming in, what do need to do to make sure apple stays on the offense? it will make this successful because they spent a lot of money. the culture and apple is quite restraining. they announced they will keep it as a separate unit. they have got to claim their primary presence as the next music experience for apple. that is going to require a lot of internal political support for them to get that done. >> how do spotify and pandora compete? a radio, primarily a radio situation. spotify is very dominant in europe. they have done well in the u.s. not that dominant in the u.s. there's a lot of room for beats to get a strong u.s. position. they will struggle in europe. spotify started as an advertising-based service. apple will package this and sell it as part of its total package of experience. what you have brought to "surveillance" is the

i saw les moonves doing the moon dance in the hallway so i'm thinking this is huge. >> this is a big week with the nfl on thursday night. it's a big lineup of divisional games which means always the atmosphere is full of energy and a lot more intensity because you're bringing in rivalries into thursday. >> in fact the first game is pittsburgh versus baltimore, right? >> they like each other. a lot of love between pittsburgh and baltimore. that's a great way to start it. >> we always see fans. they complain because the season's ending. >> yeah. >> so when you tell the fans there's going to be more games on tv, that i oar like yes. i do feel their enthusiasm when they're out there. >> other than more games on television, how is this game changing since you played? >> oh, my gosh. it's change dramatically. the quarterbacks have so much at their hands. they get to do so much. of course, they practice a lot less. i mean a lot less. >> really? >> yeah, they do. with the new collective bargaining agreement, they have work restrictions. off-season, during the season they can't wear pads. god

and gas firm nabors industry was the highest paid, pulling down $68 million followed by cbs' les moonvesnumber three at 55.3 million and trip advisor steven coffer, a newcomer to the list, earned 39 million last year. most of it because of a large stock option grant. despite these high numbers, shareholders do continue to support these pay levels. only 2.5% of the firms in the russell 3000 saw shareholders reject the executive pay plans on a vote. >> if company's bottom lines are lower and stock prices are higher, are the ceo salaries justified if you believe in the pay performance kind of a model. ed tor and cofounder of the corporate library joins us again and doesn't think so. good to see you. >> my company name changed. gmi ratings. >> gmi ratings. >> yeah. >> we stand corrected. >> okay. >> look, last time you were on we were talking about whether corporate boards were doing enough to rein in executive pay. why by these numbers, would this suggest there's still a problem out there? >> yeah. i think there's still a problem on it. i always say you've got to look at ceo pay like any ot

the commentary from moonves, i don't know. >> you know, the comp -- when you go over the quarter, i meanrase back end. no one wants to hear back end. talked about entertainment than up front. it was not a great conference call but the buyback is for real. those who bet against him have historically done poorly. i'm not dropping my interest in cbs one bit. >> i'm going to go, again, kind of going on a tangent, marisa mayor, speaking at tech disrespe disrespect, she talked video. if yahoo! wants to be a video company shouldn't they be valued like a media company. cbs at 18 times earnings. yahoo! 26, 27 times earnings. >> look at it this way, no one has moved into video more aggressively in terms of program attic ads than tim arm strong who bought a couple million worth of stock, we heard that, bought 55, but his stock has been spindsled and mutilated because people feel like the cash flow short term isn't good enough. trying to get the exact amount he bought. i think he's making a statement, upset with the way the stock has acted. who wouldn't be giving the pull. that is the company that's

as leslie moonves one of the top earners took home sixty five point six million last year and despite their psychology to the financial crisis the biggest winners were wall street c.e.o.'s whose pay rose a. astonishing twenty two percent last year after an identical twenty two percent jump the year before average workers weekly wages by contrast rose to our i'm sorry one point three percent. as money accumulates at the top of the pay scale and the stock market does well there's even more evidence that the middle class is being hollowed out goldman sachs study using department of labor data shows that the middle class hasn't recovered in terms of job creation looking at job losses during the recession one conceives at the middle pay levels were hit hardest and although the economy is recovering the new jobs being added are mostly the lowest paying leaving the middle class shrinking toward the bottom new details of rumors have emerged over how the national security agency responded to public requests for information after edward snowden leaked the largest amount of classified material i

. >> leslie moonves in referencing or i referenced that quote that you just mentioned. >> yeah. >> saidcan't measure whether it helps with the ratings. that is twitter and tv. but there is a beneficial he believed something beneficial to having people tweet about shows that they're watching. >> doesn't hurt. that's one of the things can't hurt. you know, can't hurt. >> can't hurt. >> i have a million people saying turn on the oscars. that's better than having no one say turn on the oscars. i was surprised that there wasn't more cause and effect demonstrated. if you go and listen to facebook's call, all you hear about and you'll hear dominos on "mad money" tonight, and patty doyle will say the way that we've been able it to build our business is facebook. not twitter. facebook. >> yeah. >> the app. the great app. i love the app. >> with all of that, dow is down 16 and we'll talk t-mobile in a bit. first bob pisani is on the floor. hey, bob. >> good morning. just want to point out some of the earnings here. here's yelp. look how yelp opened up almost 8%, 7.75% on its earnings and we just