mr. murdoch. $400 million in advertising. charlie: it is about mr. murdoch.wants a show. >> it's all about mr. murdoch. charlie: a lot of it is cord cutting. cord cutting is a future expense that i think the nfl and all the teams and every company is sort of pricing in and that $1.6 billion that at & t is on the hook for the next three years, an average, 1.5, 1.7, you know, it's all over the place but it's in that average, they are on the hook for that. they can't sell it. they got to eat it. it's costing them too much money because of cord cutting. people are not buying directv. >> a lot of it, too, if you think back to the original directv before the acquisition, they would make the payment to retransmit all the games and fox and cbs would produce, then they would sell $350 annual subscriptions. so if you have two million, three million subscribers, but now that's not the case. liz: stand by. we need to go to washington, d.c., because we have a news conference there on the coronavirus with the state department. let's listen in. >> i'm going to start by turn

in some false debunked narratives instead rupert murdoch's media empire has long held a disproportionate influence over politics in australia he and. mr scott morrison are united on this issue throw in murdoch's close ties to a straight powerful fossil fuel lobby and all 'd of the elements are there for a conspiracy of this information on the biggest grave best story of our time our starting point this week is it. taking in the coverage in rupert murdoch's australian media outlets of the historic devastating wildfires and the climate change angle can be confusing that is by design this climate change phase 5 is now gone are the days of hardcore denial of climate change disputing that the planet is overheating what the murdoch media now specialize in is climate skepticism denial taken down a notch or 2 i agree. changing. arguments that pin the cause of the wildfires on anything but global warming like strikes and . well mainly the bush 5 in this country sound bites that too will dirt rather than clarify that there are a lot of things that go into making. from global warming the fact that they that undermine the prospect of a consensus

murdoch's news corp. dominates the australian media ndscape. critics say mr. murdock's australian newspapers and co networks havinued to publish and give air to stories and opinionhat dismisses widely accepted science about climate change from which mas this daily beast story very interesting. rupert mdoch's son james murdoch sits on the new scoreboard. a spokesman for him and his wife told the daily beast, "catherine and james's views on, change is well-established and their frustration with the newsp. c coverage is well known. they are particularlysa ointed with the ongoing denial among news outlets in australia given the evidence to the contrary." strong stuff. sometimes an issue of emphasis. here we have the australian newspaper on the day that australia it is highest everat average tempe. it is owned by rupert murdoch. it chose to lead the day with a story on coal exports. other times things are more explicit. we know australia's climate has been getting warmer over the past century. meteorologists, as david has just been telling us, say a hotter, drier c

mr. morrison is now saying his views are evolvg. and tha is a significant moment for australian politics. youh know, m of the news here is dominated by the news corporatio run by rupert murdochictly -- almost strictly anti-climate change views, climate denial views but even that is changing some of the tabloids are starting to address this too. very quickly, just the other day, the son of rupert murdoch, james murdoch openly split with his family and said that the news corporation should be addressing this issue more directly. on top of all of this, what is troubling, judy, is this is really the beginning of the traditional fire seasone, february and march are oftentim where the real fires begin. judy: miles o'brien reporting from victoria in australia. so hard to believe until you see it up close likehis. thank you, miles. miles: you're welcome, judy. ♪ judy: when michelle obama was first lady, one of her key initiatives was to push for healthie nutrition and food choices. that translated into a change the country.dhool but the trump administration and some state officials argued that the obama administration went too far. beenhis administration has rolling back some of tho