, the muppet line is not first on her agenda.aff or not so talented, i british parliamentary panel declared rupert murdoch unfit to run his media empire, in a scathing 125-page report members of parliament concluded murdoch, quote, turned a blind eye and exhibited willful blindness to what was going on in his company's and publications and is, quote, not a fit person to exercise this stewardship of a major international company. but not everyone on the panel agreed. one conservative member called the criticism wildly outside the scope of the committee. that person is looking for a job at the news corp. just kidding, willie. what does this mean for old rupert. >> rupert murdoch is 81 he's made it this long, he'll survive this. they tried to turn the tables, talk about how they were in cahoots with david cameron, we'll see how in this plays out. >> the joke, which i do not endorse, rupert murdoch says, you say i'm unfit to run a news organization, well i -- >> there's always that. >> we know na james has had his troubles, elizabeth

would need in order to feel like she has kind of a political vibe to have like all these talking muppets that are just like spewing stuff but not really based on anybody's real. anything one of them but you but those would be my conditions too i mean who wouldn't want to you know a movie with the muppets but you know something to think about twenty one has been a pretty good. tax for hillary clinton. recently when we've shown that she kind of has an idea of pop culture and then i'm going to do it only saw the legs that that there i had she was like hey i'm going to ride this i want to keep it standing wondering wondering why did you get a new you know like cool adviser to try to direct her that way it's a everybody forget about the policies maybe that you're pushing but look i can dance and drink and jason segel ok let's to our last story real quick basically and i won't play the clip because we don't have all that much time but british parliament after all this investigation into the news of the world scandal has said that murdoch is not a fit person to run a major international corpora

goldman sachs, danny believes is the best of breed investment bank and the muppet comments aside, remember the controversial op-ed page in the "new york times," it's usually in the business of putting clients first. and i think it does. when i worked there, i always heard the client, the client, the client is right, right, right. timberland, got taken over by vf corp., made you a bundle. dreamworks, the sole underperformer in the group. danny suggested we remove dreamworks and replace it with cramer fave salesforce.com. the software is a service company that practically invented cloud computing. as danny said, it's all about helping other companies interact with their customers more effectively. it's been having a ton of success posting terrific numbers. think oracle there which is a stock i think you should sell. the ceo marc benioff, the danny meyer of the cloud business has instilled throughout the organization. not that anyone cares right now in light of cisco's blow-up that took salesforce down $16 with it. some worries about the quarter. if you like danny's analysis, it might be time

you famously this week, henry, said this is muppet bait. the facebook ipo is muppet bait. what do you mean? >> classically. this refers back to goldman's e-mails where they were calling their customers muppets as let's find stupid folks to shove this off on. it doesn't mean people interested in facebook are stupid. it's a great company. the ipo will be tremendously exciting. my point is individuals should not play the ipo game, especially with a company like this, where everybody knows everything about it. there's no way to get any sort of edge. if you can get some stock at the ipo price and want to have a little fun, fine. but the idea -- >> you're not going to get it if you're the average joe. >> no, you're not. >> or the average jill. >> or the average jill or jane, you're just not going to get it. peach el look at zuckerberg. he's doing his road show and wearing his hoodie. wow, this is the definition of the kind of company you want to be in on. is it a foregone conclusion the stock will rise and keep rising? >> well, i think that zuckerberg is going out wearing the ho

you see, back in november, kermit was over in germany doing a junket for his upcoming movie "the muppets." jim. wow, it is disturbing to hear kermit speak german. although, i suppose it shouldn't be surprising given how much he loves pork ?itser. pork schnitzel. the problem is during one guest appearance on zeeben's "disney day," kermit plugged his movie in violation of german media law which bans product placement unless clearly identified as sump, unlike in america, where advertising calls attention to itself by being everything that exists. ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( cheers ) folks, this is an outrage. how could germany do this to a beloved children's icon? well, here to answer for his country, please welcome the german ambassador to the united nations, the honorable hans beinholtz. ( applause ) welcome, mr. ambassador. >> thank you, stephen. >> stephen: now, i see you've brought your own whimsicle character. hey there, big, fella, what is your name? >> his name is kookoo mcbuttons. ( laughter ) but he does not speak. for he is alive with a piece of cloth. >> stephen: okay, then why

they have a list of 21 congressional members that resemble muppets. hometown girl barbara mikulski is camilla the chicken. and these guys are equal opportunity offenders. debbie washerman schultz is a spitting image janice from the band. look at that. keep that up there. that's scary. john by aner is scooter. boehner is scoot -- boehner is scooter. maurees sindex died and best known for classic where the wild things are one of the best selling children's books of all time. 22 of his titles have been named to the best illustrated books of the year. he died at 83. >>> if you are retiring put more out for your health care. how much more couples can expect to pay and what's driving up the high medicare cost. also, sherrie. >> reporter: the breaking news details online and coming up on air. southwest flight airline that grounded overnight. what authorities are now saying. >> reporter: everything is up to speat on 95 in white marsh. no delays to 695. and 11 minute ride on outer loop from 95 up to 83 and here's a live look at harrisburg expressway. no delays

. >> coming up, which muppet do you most look like? we have a list of some of them i guess coming up. >> first here is a look at night line. >> coming up on night line authorities say a preacher's son claiming to be a investment wizard hit churches nationwide leaving hundreds of believers bankrupt. tonight we investigate. >>> and we spend time at home with the sister wives. that's coming up. after abc 2news at 11. Ñ[= . >> brunch, breakfast in bed for mother's day or climb mount everest. one couple will spend 17 days hiking. aboutut five to seven miles a day at altitudes of 14,000 feet. so they can live out a dream. >> i only have two [inaudible] one was to buy a mini cooper, and the other was to go [inaudible]. i didn't get the mini cooper. >> sounds safer. they plan to donate the gear and other items to it a youth foundation. >> maybe a mini jackie couper. >>> a website has a list of 21 members that look like muppets. one the news man eric kantor, debbi watson as janice, and wyatt as [inaudible] >> i get it. i get it. yeah. beaker. >

how can the muppets help the military families?hip with the uso to support our military families around the world. so what we're doing is taking our fuzzy, friendly and furry muppets like these guys to really bring a free show to military kids all over the country to let them know we love them and support them and we're going to help them through the challenges in their lives. >> brian: you'll be on tour up until november. do you guys like kids? do you like this interaction? let's begin with you. >> do we like kids? >> brian: do you like kids? >> i live on sesame street. liking kids is kind of a gimme! i love kids! come on! >> brian: when you go out to the military families, do you find that they enjoy having threw, grover? >> absolutely. some of my best friends are kids from military families. yeah. >> brian: right. and the kids seem to enjoy it. you know what i'm shocked at? no tongue. you really don't -- there you go. grover does not have a tongue. where is your tongue? >> somehow i talk. >> brian: lynn, when you deal with these

this is muppet bait. >> this is muppet bait? >> everybody knows about it. they're so excited. it's waited to go public. muppet bait. here's one big difference between facebook and google. google went public in a much earlier stage. they were still growing rapidly. facebook, the business is decelerating fast. >> henry blodget this morning. kayla tausche has been following the facebook story for us. how excited is wall street about facebook? do you hear this pessimism often? >> wall street's been building the bull and bear cases since the prospectous hit three months ago. investors i spoke with new york and boston want an end to the deal not because they thought it was a company worth 100 times earnings, but because they viewed it as a deal of a generation where growth -- unpredictable growth could be block buster and one of those areas was mobile. more facebook users using smartphones to poke and to like. monetizing would be key, but it would be uncertain. and even facebook said as much itself. >> we believe mobile usage of facebook is critical to long-term user engagement. exp

do you know the muppet show?n shows as a kid? >> yeah. >> jimmy: which ones did you watch? i was in australia and they were watching "hart to hart" over there. >> yeah. there was so much banter. i loved that. >> jimmy: what else did you see there? >> i was talking to a friend, "21 jump street". >> jimmy: oh, really, with your co-star johnny depp. >> yeah, i grew up with him. >> jimmy: did you mention that to him? >> no, i'm too proud. >> jimmy: he has no idea. >> no, no, he was fabulous. >> jimmy: did you have a great working experience with johnny depp? >> yeah, he is a wonderful man. he is very humble and so professional. he has a very beautiful soul. i was very lucky. >> jimmy: you got to see his soul. that is awkward. >> yeah. >> jimmy: well, not in real life but you have a witch. i thought you did a great job. you guys are flying all over -- how do you fly all over when you are flying and making love, whatever you call it exactly. how did that happen? >> well, i mean, it's the most acrobatic sex scene you ha

this is muppet bait. everybody knows about it.cited, it's waiting to go public, all this anticipation. muppet bait. >> i like that. >> my position has gotten a little confused. i'm not saying whether facebook is good and bad, i'm saying individual investors shuntiould be playing the stock market any more than you should take out your own appendix. how can you possibly evaluate it and -- >> do you remember google? i think the consensus was that google was muppet bait, too. that went from 80 and 600. >> i agree completely with steve, having been an analyst, come off, looking at the world from the outside. most individuals have no idea what an incredible disadvantage that are after. google went public at a much earlier stage. they were still accelerating, growing incredibly rapidly. facebook, the business is decelerating fast. >> that's because they hadn't figured out mobile. the argument is if they can figure mobile -- >> there's certainly hurj option value. a lot of long only big mutual funds have to take a position because there's

he also torments us. >> jimmy: you were in "the muppets," too. >> yeah, he just barricades the street>> jimmy: interestingly, it's never happened to me. only across the street. >> next time. >> jimmy: i forgot to ask you, at your birthday, do you like the gift that we got you? >> what did you get? >> jimmy: you don't remember? i was going to ask you because -- >> oh, no. >> jimmy: it's been sitting at our house. you left it over there for two months. >> oh, my god. how embarrassing. >> yeah, i know, i -- boy, if only you weren't on television right now. >> are you sure? >> jimmy: i'm pretty sure. this is your card, right? >> no. >> jimmy: i drew a penis on it. >> no, did i -- how awful. >> jimmy: you did forget those, yeah. so, there they are. >> oh, god, how embarrassing. i got so many gifts, i can't remember. >> jimmy: don't worry. i only wore them twice. >> and they are amazing. how embarrassing. >> jimmy: we've been saving those and plotting against you for a while now. >> you are the worst neighbors ever. i feel like such a jackass. >> jimmy: worst neighbors ever. there was a vid

sdplz they sa >> they said, toure, you're a muppet. don't be a muppet. >> they did. and they pointed out full disclosure. i've had some fortunate moments being in google, being in apple. they were like, this is not that. they're always saying go slower than i want to go, but here they were definitely like, go slow. part of what they're talking about is, how do we grow? how does facebook grow? what is going to be the future when it closes at the number it opened at, that bolsters what they're saying. also as we move into an area where mobile is more important than desktop, how is facebook going to survive in that world? there may be a day where we're like, hey, kids, i remember when facebook was the dominant thing on computers and in the world, and they're like, what is a facebook? who knows? >> there is no question. krystal, you get the last word on all of this. >> i actually want to pick up on a point that ari made about the fact that we as users are making these deals that a lot of times we don't even know that we're making. we've basically put out to the market th

small conference room in the old bank building most famous to that moment, because the movie "the muppets take manhattan" had taken place in that very conference room, he spoke for a few minutes and then he said, but i have questions to ask you. he spent the rest of almost two hours asking people what it was like to practice law in albuquerque, new mexico, what it was like then to be a law student, what it was like to come to a firm, what things people were worried about, what was important to them, what they saw as important and possible in the life of the law. that kind of desire to continue to understand what is going on in the lives of all kinds of people is when combined with this great scholarship, combined with his great intellect, and combined with his great compassion has made him to me the very perfect person to sit on the highest court of the land. justice stevens, it's an honor to have you here, and we thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you, roberta. before i read you my prepared remarks, i have to acknowledge what a nice introduction that was because i remember that occ

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hear this story -- i didn't know the back story on this one, jason segel, you know the actor, "the muppets been, i guess he's been out lobbying to get hillary clinton to appear in a film with him when he's asked on the red carpet who is the mother on the show, he always says hillary clinton like she's going to come out and be the mother on show. secretary clinton heard of segel's ambition and wrote him a letter politely rejecting him. secretary of state writes, i was delighted to read about your interest in sharing the big screen with me. as you can imagine i'm a little occupied at the moment. perhaps someday i can help you forget sarah marshall again. in the meantime, my best wishes for your continued success in your career. that in an official letter from secretary of state hillary clinton to jason segel. should our secretary of state be pen pals with this young gentleman right here? i just don't know. i just don't know. he does go full frontal. >>> still ahead, your diplomatic tweets and texts are just moments away. [ male announcer ] what can you do with plain white rice? when you pour

small conference room in the old bank building most famous to that moment, because the movie "the muppets take manhatt manhattan" took place in that very conference room, he spoke for a few minutes and then he said, but i have questions to ask you. he spent the rest of almost two hours asking people what it was like to practice law in albuquerque, new mexico, what it was like theno

in and talk to the suits at abc and say we're going to do this big panel gent, it's going to have muppets and have eric estrada do this and all this stuff. and the fact that the suits of that year were, dang, a good idea -- [laughter] let's put that on air, right? says something about the culture. today we would not have that same sense of, yes, every now and again this country needs something like this that pulls together high and low, broad and narrow, all different ways of singing and making known the many voices that are heard when someone tries to sing "america" and to do it in ways that are beautiful, creative and be innovative. that is a charge that all of us have to take. not everybody here is an artist, but everybody here is capable of humming a tune. everybody here knows the tune "this land is your land," everybody here knows the tune "america the beautiful." half of you hear know how to create mix tapes and match-ups in -- mash-ups. nothing stops us from taking something that was too old or too white and maybe even racist about some of our inheritance and saying, i reclaim this

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hit them low, because people have hit you low, saying you were wearing a dead muppet on your head.

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it could happen in the future, with her only condition that there are muppets involved.hat happen. >>> and jerry seinfeld has twitter abuzz with hints about an upcoming project. he's been tweeting lots of pictures featuring classic cars and -- that stars -- stars alec baldwin and ricky gear vase. one clue was shot of jerry with a vintage 1952 volkswagen bug and larry david. hmm, i wonder what they're up to. 8:04 right now. let's get a check of the weather from al. >> "today's weather" is brought to you by kay jewelers. every kiss begins with kay. >> and good morning, everybody. got some friends here. brain tumor awareness month. courtney rose foundation? >> yes. >> well, good to see you. thank you so much. what do you have going on? >> we're trying to raise that awareness and raise research funding. >> that's terrific. >> the courtney rose foundation dot org. >> you bet. let's see what we've got for you. pick city of the day happens to be mobile, obama. nbc 15. we're going to be looking at strong thunderstorms, temperatures in the low 80s. we've got a lot of rain making

. >> the muppets get around.uppets. it got your attention. it will get yo 's biggest breakout hits. we're talking about abc's "revenge," about a young woman who moves to the hamptons to get back at the people who ruined her life and her father's life. it is watched by about 7 million people each week. who is counting? the big season finale is just around the corner. we're pleased to have the three big stars with us. emily vancamp, madeleine stowe, and josh bowman. can you start with the emily stare? that's what we were asking people. you have this look. i watch every week. i'm at home and i get that chill. >> i don't know where that comes from. my mom calls me asking me where did that come from? >> what are you thinking when you co-do that? >> i don't know. we joke about it quite a bit. >> it has many names. the death stare. it has the crock. >> you have it down pat. you do. do you all -- it's such a tense show, as far as the characters and the way you are with each other. but on set, do you play jokes? how do yo

jim hansen of the muppets, he he died suddenly, it was the same type of infection.e've also seen it -- >> the flesh-eating type? >> it was the same bacteria. and we've also seen it with toxic shock syndrome which we saw with women during a period of time because of tampon use. so it's common and it's been around for a long time. >> what does it look like? what should people look for? is there some people more susceptible to it than others? >> the issue is how the organism penetrates into the skin. a puncture wound is probably more apt to breed aerobic and an aerobic bacteria. it invades the connective tissues. and it spreads very rapidly. that's what makes this so virulent, this strain. if you get nick on your skin and you develop redness around it and what's specific about these types of infections is they're usually become very painful. if you injure yourself, it may pain for a few minutes or en a day. but after that, unless you bump against it or knock against it again, will you feel any severe pain. it starts to progressively get more painful. that's the key tha

they are certainly trying to have more disclosure, but i think the muppet story, when they talk from clients, i think there's still collateral damage there. i like playing blackrock. it's amazing. a couple years back trying to emulate like goldman and now trying to be like blackrock. goldman started to say blackrock from top to bottom they really play the game right. also, i like wells fargo. they're really poised properly for this housing uptick. you have to be patient in that stock, but also if you're kind of adverse to the large bank multinational exposure, i like the kre, that's the regional bank etf. and i like the etf play here because it gives you that diversification. >> kre, blackrock and wells fargo. we'll be back with you in a bit. i'm standing up taller trying to stay with you there, buddy. >> absolutely. >> durable goods orders up but not as much as expected. unemployment claims down very slightly. our senior economics reporter, steve liesman, here with the insight. you're more my size. i can look at you eye-to-eye. >> here's the problem. the jobs number was positive, ty

but there's lawyers, there's, you know, there's doctors that are unscrupulous that used the word muppetst happened to look through -- greg smyth and culture, a culture around wall street whether it's at the big firms or smaller firms. >> you don't start on wall street with bad intentions. you go into wall street and you get inducted in and you get corrupted by the culture. in my firm what happened is it ran away like a freight train. before i knew it i did things i never thought i would do. it seemed perfectly okay. >> when you think back and you were in prison what did you think of what did you? how do you think you got there in retrospect? >> one step at a time. doing everything right and i took one step to the dark side. i will pull back and do it right again and your line of morality moves again. >> what were you doing? >> what i was doing was commonplace i was front running customer trades. put block of stocks that were hot in friendly accounts and buy them back. it was very similar. >> i had my issues when i was, you know, at a retail broker, it was commissions then. much less fee

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. >> neil cavuto sounds like a muppet. what's wrong with him? on the fact that obama's social security number is from connecticut and he's never been there? want to see what the term papers actually were about. nor do they want us to see the grades. they don't want us to see the grades. >> yo, idiot before 1972, they didn't give out social security numbers based on state. they just gave them out. >> from the state of. >> stephanie: they give you that for nothing. grades, we don't need to see that. >> cut through the crackerjack box. >> anyone can go to harvard. sure. okay. >> stephanie: we don't have time for this. we're going to have to wait for dana loesch. there is a tease. >> you're trying to get people stick around by teasing dana loesch? >> stephanie: because it is long which is nice when you hear her voice. it is soothing. >> stephanie: that and we still have celebrity stack. we have news from the queen for god's sakes. exactly. so much more to come. and comedian carlos alazraqui we're still in the midst of coffee with carlos. >> speaking

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more muppets in the after the show show. bill: good morning. a fox news alert. a horrific look at the bloodshed in syria. u.n. observers finding a dozen bodies lined up in a row, face down, hands tied behind their backs shot execution style. it's the latest ripple in this violence. martha: those pictures are devastating. the violence in syria is continuing to spin out of control. people are desperately trying to get out of the country. this picture says so much this morning. a syrian woman carrying her son, suffering from a gunshot wound, trying desperately to get across that border. bill: what happened today, connor? >> reporter: the violence continued in syria. for the last 48 hour the area in central syria has been pounded by syrian artillery and rockets. this area has been hit hard the past 48 hours by syrian artillery. ban ki-moon urged and called on the syrian government to end the violence. the syrian rebels announced they wand an ultimatum. they want a return to the cease-fire. that seems unlikely considering what we have seen the past three or four days