mr. murdoch wants to see you now. and he said here's the deal the attorneys have said we have to part ways with bill o'reilly and the five will go to prime time. i said okay but you will stay at 5:00 i really need to maintain the audience in prime time. thank you very much and very positive and i called my wife i will still do the 5:00 show i am not sure if i am on the five anymore than it was going to be aided clock. -- at 8:00 then the press release came now that i am looking for my name on the five. [laughter] >> they are doing great by the way. [laughter] [applause] rachel got some new wind in her sales given her strong audience they're doing great at 9:00. so they are hitting fox that we not the fox that we used to be but we just ran the numbers but in june this year versus last year is up 19%. [applause] >> i think the whole network is up. >> i looked at the numbers on monday and every show. and it kept getting bigger. [applause] the tucker edition? [applause] >> i cannot wait to talk with him about this but i c

mr. murdoch wants to see you now.put a suit on in a tie and i ran up to the office and he sat down and he said look here's the deal for our attorneys. we're can have to part ways with bill o'reilly and we have an issue at 8:00 at night and the five is going to go to prime time. i want you to know you are going to stay at 5:00 you will stay in the center seat. i really need to maintain the audit -- audience into prime time. thank you very much. very positive. i left i called my wife and i said i'm in a do the 5:00 show is still i'm not sure if i'm on the five anymore originally it's good to be in. there is a press release that comes out about two hours later. i'm looking for my name at the five. they are doing great by the way. there up against that. somehow being anti- term has given her a pretty strong audience. they are doing great at 9:00. the people are really hitting fox. we just ran our numbers june of this year versus june of last year. were up 19% up 19%. i think the whole network is actually up. those were th

mr. murdoch happy man for the news out of the u.k. today?really interesting to see the sky shares surge. this is not the worst case an -- worst case scenario for fox. the worst case. what the today is said -- what the government has said is that they are planning, they are minded to review this for additional regulatory review which could take another six months but it is definitely not the worst case scenario. >> the alliance has grabbed its merger agreement with right had -- rite aid which was being reviewed by regulars. instead, it will buy 22 rite aid stores. and those stores will be converted to walgreens. >> it's always been obvious the remedies walgreens and rite aid put in front of the regulators were in position, they pushed back the time for getting this done again again and again. what they've come out today i s interesting. they said we are going to do a deal but we are going to only buy a small proportion of stores rather than buying the whole company. really interesting question is what happens to the rest of rite aid? ♪ ♪ scar

mr. murdoch a happy man for the news out of the u.k. today?s really interesting to see the sky shares surge. i think they are surging because this is not the worst case scenario for fox with its proposed takeover of sky. what would have been the worst case scenario is an outright rejection. what the government has said is that they are planning, they are minded to review this for additional regulatory review , which could take another six months, but it is definitely not the worst case scenario. >> walgreen food alliance has scrapped its merger agreement with rite aid, which was being reviewed by regulators. instead it will by 2200 rite aid stores. and those stores will be converted to the walgreens brand. walgreens will pay rite aid a $325 million termination fee. >> it's always been obvious the remedies walgreens and rite aid put in front of the regulators were insufficient. they pushed back the time for getting this done again again and again. what they have come out with today is interesting. they said we are going to do a deal, but we are

mr. murdoch not want to make any concessions if he knows that this leads to a very lengthy delay of this merger >> it's quite possible he just thinks that it's pointless because it is such a political decision this has always been a political decision they have lobbied back and forth trying to get away from having to make a decision herself, which ultimately she will have to do. but entirely possible that murdoch thinks that she's made it clear that she is very he minded to refer are to the cma, so just prolonging it is unnecessary. >> is there is a chance that his position could before before. >> he's offered to have a separate board and secondly guaranteeing to keep sky news branding with the same level of funding for the next five years. >> but miss bradley said it won't go far enough, she wants to see more. >> and she said she's very much in agreement with what off con has said so, yes, the idea was to propose further remedy, but i think it's quite inevitable, so just get on with the process >> seems pretty convoluted at this point what are the analysts thinking do they think that th

mr. trump, his family, and their business reputation, unless they change their strategy towards the russia probe. they don't have much more time to do it." the "wall street journal" is part of rupert murdoch'sews empire, which generally supports mr. trump. >>> the u.s. dispensing a mixed message on iran's nuclear compliance, certifying that iran is still making good on the terms of the nuclear deal, but the trump administration says iran's nonnuclear activities show it's "unquestionably in default of the spirit of the agreement." both the president and secretary of state rex tillerson have been fierce critics of the deal. a senior administration official says they're considering more sanctions targeting iran's ballistic missile program and state sponsorship of terrorism. >>> people who fish, boat, jet ski and paddle board on the potomac unhappy with the new coast guard rule that closes a two-mile stretch of the river when president trump or a senior official are golfing at his club in virginia. the coast guard says it's for security reasons. the proposed security area includes a popular end markation point for a summer camp and kayaking program for wounded vets. critics have until august 9t

you respond, "wall street journal" rupert murdoch owned property has a pretty scathing editorial this morning about how the trumps have mishandled much of it. mr. trump somehow seems to believe his outside personality and social media following make him larger than the presidency. he's wrong. 'enhis family seem oblivious to the brutal realities of washington politics. those reality also destroy mr. trump his family and their business reputation unless they change their strategy towards the russia probe. they don't have much more time to do it." >> remind me of the warnings issued to the trump campaign in 2016, all throughout it and he became president anyway. it's a hard-hitting editorial. i think all of your viewers should take a look at, advocating radical transparency, taking us back to the watergate era and the release of the tapes. put it all out there, let everybody figure it out and importantly i think the editorial says every piece of what you are trying to hide is going to come to light. everything is going to be found out f it's not found out by the special counsel, the congress will get to it. if congress doesn't get to it, the pres

order to a west wing which even rupert murdoch's "new york post" compared to the reality show "survivor." in a profane rant to "the new yorker" on wednesday night, mr. trump's new communications director called priebus an expletive paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoic. >> some brothers are like cain and abel. if reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that. >> i'm not going to get into the mud on those sorts of things. >> but it's unclear whether kelly will be given the authority to rein in chaos, which emanates from the president himself. this week the president repeatedly attacked his own attorney general. >> i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself. >> if jeff sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay. >> priebus' ouster came just hours after the colossal failure of the republicans' best hope for a policy success, and priebus was playing point for the white house. senator john mccain joined senators susan collins and lisa murkowski to defeat an already watered-down bill that didn't repeal the law, it was only going to repeal the mandate. dealing a blow to senate republicans' hopes of passi

murdoch's 21st century fox inches a little closer to securing sky and the u.k.. from the first record of the u.k. government, they were prepared to refer to the regulator. -- as mrk had the man out of the news from the u.k. today? >> i think shares are surging because this isn't the worst case scenario for fox with its proposed takeover of sky. the worst-case scenario would of been an outright rejection. with the government has done today is said they are planning to review this -- to refer this for an additional regulatory review, which could take another six months, but it is definitely not the worst case scenario. ♪ anchor: walgreens has scrapped a write a takeover -- a takeover of rite aid, which was being looked at by regulators. >> what they have come out with today is quite interesting. they have said we are going to do the deal, but in massively revised terms, so we are only going to buy a small portion of the stores rather than the all company. the interesting question now is what happens to the rest of rite aid. ♪ ♪ scarlet: you're watching "bloomberg best." the health of italy's banking sector under scrutiny this week as the government allow the secon