mr. buffett in a nice way. >> you promised us a warren buffett cameo. >> there is a picture of bobby andfett. damien: i sat opposite him at a white house dinner. the more i was drinking, he became more like burgess meredith. as the evening went on. he's a natural, get him. charlie: he has done cameos. eight in the series? 12 in the first series? >> 12 in season one. charlie: it begins when? >> on the 17th on showtime. but it is on-demand already. you can stream the the first episode. charlie: congratulations. great to see you. thank you for joining us. see you next time. ♪ efforts to restore calm. the chinese currency continuing its rebound. a competitive devaluation falls away. bring back the circuit breakers.

mr. buffett in a nice way. us a warrensed buffett cameo. >> there is a picture of bobby and buffett.en: i sat opposite him at a white house dinner. more i was drinking, he became more like burgess meredith. as the evening went on. he's a natural, get him. charlie: he has done cameos. eight in the series? 12 in the first series? >> 12 in season one. charlie: it begins when? >> on the 17th on showtime. but it is on-demand already. you can stream the whole thing. -- the first episode. charlie: congratulations. great to see you. thank you for joining us. see you next time. ♪ >> we are going to be headed to new york and singapore at this hour. asian markets extending the global sell-offs. oil sank to a 12-year low. is it time to talk of a china crisis?

mr. buffett's companies, you mentioned two of them, you would think it would help preserve it. >> totallybut the flip side of that is true. if you want to please him, you tend to not be able to offer as much growth because you're plowing money into the stock, maybe not plowing money into the new initiatives. some say american express say technologies is behind where as mastercard, they've made a fabulous piece. scharf, everyone knows the takeaway at costco versus chenault said it was. chenault, the ceo. they took 2017 hopes away. >> yeah. >> 2017 is far. it's lienld a rebuilding year. the sixers, the 76ers, they have a rebuilding plan. >> every year is a rebuilding plan. >> that's because they have josh harrison. >> apollo actually. >> maybe they should go back to hedge funds and take the guy blatt who was fired from cleveland even though he won 35 and lost 11. it's probably the most outrageous firing i've ever seen. the rebuilding plan has to be quick. you can't come into a board, i think, and have credibility and say, listen, we'll get this thing done in 2017 and cut numbers. that's not

mr. buffett, you are welcome to send a check. mr. joins the campaign trail today in new hampshire. when we come back, we will dig a bit more into warren buffett. stick around. ♪ jonathan: good morning, and welcome back to bloomberg . ftse futures, the ftse getting absolutely slammed this morning. -20 points. -32 points, and ugly session. what a way to start 2016. stephanie: if you think about the weeks we are coming off of, there was little to no trading activity. people like to go big and goal on the market. there is continued uncertainty today. starting a year with uncertainty is not good. stephanie: they saw the chinese stock market -- david: they saw the chinese stock market down 7% and saw a real conflict between iran and saudi arabia. stephanie: it is not like the news out of china is that big or that different. this is just a market with so little conviction. breaking news, and matt miller is jumping up and down. matt: gm has just come out with a statement. it is investing $500 million in lyft, the very small arrival to co

charlie: people like warren buffett play bridge on the internet all the time. bill gates. they can play in different cities. mrfeld: here, you can take the challenge, play that same deal, have someone else get that deal, see how many points they get up, and how fast they can do it. charlie: andre said something once that i thought was interesting. what one needs in life is the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of will. mr. rumsfeld: he said that to me, and i remembered it and thought about it, and he is quite right. skillful enormously diplomat. he was the dean of the north atlantic council of 15 countries that were in it back in those days, and was a norm is help to me as the u.s. ambassador. help to me asmous the u.s. ambassador. charlie: there are levels in this game, and it really traces churchill's career, so when you are prime minister, you are playing at the top level. mr. rumsfeld: in the back of my mind -- you are right. you start off, and then you proceed through all the ranks, and then finally prime minister. however, later he was made through winston churchill, and aybe someday we should h

summer howard buffett made an incredible donation and recently gave them to the library of congress and in february theyopened. they are re >> host: jeanne theoharis, "the rebellious life of mrs. rosa parks" is the name of the book. >> the national book critics circle awards are given each march 2 on of the best books published the previous year. according to the organization. which is composed of close to 600 critics, authors, literary bloggers and publishing employees. here's a look at some of this year's finalists. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. no tv, television for serious readers. .. and now on c-span we want to introde you to craig timberg, he covers technology for for "the washingn

mr. ryan: we mentioned it earlier, the highest marginal tax rate when you look at the poverty trend today, isn't warren buffett or aaron rodgers, it's the single mom with two kids make $28,000, losing 80 cents on the dollar if she takes a step forward. that's an 80% marginal tax rate which is a huge disincentive to work. why would you make the riss of course you're losing so much in doing it? mr. kasich: that's why washington shouldn't write the rules and we ask permission. if you call the welfare department, what is it, health and human services, in washington, you'll.net voicemail. those people have no clue. i'm the governor of ohio. they don't even know what time zone i live in. program and e my let me run it and hold me accountable for not spending the money on something that it wasn't designed to do. this is pretty simple. i think we're all for it, right? all of us are for it. mr. scott: one of the major impediments to seeing the eradcation of poverty has to do with our tax code. it is complicated, it is challenging. and it is very difficult to create businesses today in america. i'm a big believer that y