yes, it was funded by paul allen. he thought i should do it and he had a passion for space flight because of the apollo launch. i think what gave me the inspiration and the courage to try something really it far out there -- i had never built an airplane that went faster than 27.6 mach numbers. by building spaceshipone, i told my shop we were going to build an airplane that was going to go as fast as an sr-71. mach 3.5 straight up. you can guess what they thought of me. [laughter] the new space, the people who are using their own money, they call them new space investors, paul allen, branson, bigelow is doing the space station stuff, the google guys. every one of those guys was a little kid during apollo. coincidence? ok. a little bit on spaceshipone. spaceshipone has been a profitable business for him. can you imagine an investor going out in the desert and having people do some research where the actuaries, the insurance companies who finally did that hole in one insurance to pay the $10 million to paul, they bet th

his age and saw it early and had opportunities and therefore, dropped out of harvard to work with paul allenat the same time we are looking at a whole expansion in terms of bioissues. it's extraordinary development but it seems to me that the twicesthe devices that technology is delivering to us go hand in hand with that, health insurance us reach into the brain to understand how this organ works and to make the connections not only to it all the things that we are about, what it means to be human and all those big questions. >> i agree with you. >> rose: one is essentially tied to the other. >> no, i agree with you. and i've had this conversation with-- i have a son going to m.i.t. as a freshman. and i said "are you going to go into electrical engineering bio-engineering?" electrical engineering is great because it gives you a foundation. but i agree with you wilogical science is interesting. san diego where we're based is a focussal point. we have telecom there because of us and other companies companies and we have great sciences because of a number of places really world class in life sc

we dropped a let from paul allen's house asking if we could raise money from him.ne of many but one of the only one who responded and we love him to this day for that. but he decided that he was similarly thinking about this idea that you should have all your data in the cloud. you should be able to get to it from anywhere. band width was increasing and we have the technologies coming together to provide this experience. after a few weeks of talking back and forth he decided to invest $350,000. that was--i would say that was kind of a good catalyst to decideing to leave college at the time. >> gavin: so you leave and then you put this out and you got customers. this thing didn't take years to gain traction. you saw market and people gravityized towards it. >> we had plenty of customers before mark even invested. that's where the poker winnings were funding that. >> gavin: just in the middle of the conversation, you're a co-founder using online poker dollars to keep this aploat. >> it's not even sarcasm. literally really good at online poker. and just as another not

that's the first team we're seen a microsoft team, seattle seahawks owned by microsoft founder paul allenh cnbc. courtney reagan is live at cnbc world headquarters. good morning, courtney. >> good morning to you, scott. futures are higher after stocks snapped a mini losing streak yesterday. traders may focus today on an interest rate decision by the european central bank and several speeches by federal reserve officials about the u.s. economy. we'll get data a little bit later on unemployment and trade. the dow rising 61 points on wednesday to 13,390. the nasdaq adding 14 points to open at 3105. scott, back to you. >> thank you much. we expect president obama will nominate his chief of staff jack lew to run the u.s. treasury this morning. not a terribly controversial choice. there is some concern though over lew's signature though. take a look. here it is. remember the treasury secretary has to sign the dollar bill, right? is that something you would want on your dollar bill? >> a lot of loops. >> is that even a signature? there's a push this morning saying, come on, jack, maybe make it l

age and saw it early and had opportunities and, therefore, dropped out of harvard to work with paul allenat the same time, we are looking at a whole expansion in terms of bioissues. it's extraordinary development but it seems to me that the twicethe devices that technology is delivering to us go hand in hand with that, health insurance us reach into the brain, to understand how this organ works, and to make the connections not only to it all the things that we are about, what it means to be human and all those big questions. >> i agree with you. >> rose: one is essentially tied to the other. >> no, i agree with you. and i've had this conversation with-- i have a son going to m.i.t. as a freshman. and i said, "are you going to go into electrical engineering, bio-engineering?" electrical engineering is great because it gives you a foundation. but i agree with you, wilogical science is interesting. san diego where we're based is a focussal point. we have telecom there because of us and other companie companies and we have great sciences, because of a number of places really world class in li

the portland trail blazers and seattle seahawks are owned by paul allen, microsoft founder.arlier the pixar movie "brave" was nominated for an oscar in category of best animated feature. congratulations to them. let me let you in on a secret. the men and women at pixar and most animators don't really like that category. why? because some see it as a way of keeping them out of the best picture category. now honestly "brave" wouldn't have made it into that category this year. back in 2003 the best picture of the year was "lord of the rings return of the king" and "finding nemo" won best animated picture and people would say that is one of the best movies of the last 10, 15, 20 years. >> they are so much more than animated. >> they are not cartoons. they are fmovies and many think we ought to be in the big boy or big girl category. >> i vote for "shrek." >> exactly. is donkey supporting actor then? >> thanks so much. we'll check in with mike for a look at the morning commute. >> i think about cartoons. not animated features but "tom and jerry" type cartoons. a nice smooth drive

. >>> and paul allen is third. >>> another plaudit for harvard, and stanford and m.i.t.d and third. >>> david carp aspired to attend m.i.t. but figured he didn't need to go to college or finish high school. carp is the stand-out in "forbes" magazine new issue 30 under 30, the social entrepreneurs, he's quite a story. >>> i'm always angry. >> aaa, thanks in part to "the incredible hulk," "the avengers" was top of the pack in 2012 raking in almost $60 million in the u.s. alone. first runner up "the dark knight rises" hauled in $450 million and "the hunger games" third. >>> and for all of you trying to get in shape for the new year, "spectrum" is the top workout song of the year. it sure will get the pumping. bicycled to that one in soul cycle. and those are your number ones. note's ♪ ky had no idea why dawn was gone for so long... ...but he'd wait for her forever, for any reason, and would always be there with the biggest welcome home. for a love this strong, dawn only feeds him iams. compared to other leading brands, it has 50% more animal protein. ...to help keep rocky's

. >> between him, larry ellison and paul allen, there's something about the water.right. it's nice to see him saying, look, my yacht is going to be used just for things like finding a giant squid and scientific research. it's exciting. >> i would like to do research, wouldn't you? >> i would like to do research off the coasts. >> you might find a squid. >> by the way, discovery channel's monster squid: the giant is real premiers on january 27th at 8:00 p.m. as the season finale of curiosity. >>> the wells fargo conference call is under way. we'll bring you the latest comments right after this breakw breathe, and how that feels. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open for 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarge

. >> do we have a shot of paul allen? >> i switched over about four minutes before the end of the game because i figured it was over at that point. >> did you, really? yeah, it was pretty much over. and yesterday's other game, the ravens used a suffocating defense to hold indianapolis to just three field goals. it was 24-9 win over the colts and ray lewis and company will go to denver. >> ray lewis is from rutgers. >> ray lewis or ray rice? >> no, ray rice. i'm sorry. ray rice. i can talk about good game for about 30 seconds. then i talk a little too long. >> if you don't really follow it, you should just not talk. the top seeded -- >> look at me. like somebody else we know. in hockey news, after 113 mostly bitter days in the nhl labor lockout, the league and its players forged a new ten-year collective bargaining agreement following a 16-hour marathon bargaining session. the shortened season is expected now finally to start within a couple of weeks. now let's get to the markets. scout bower joins us from the cme. for sta

microsoft co-founder, paul allen, $300 million, mort zuckerman, newspaper tycoon, $200 million, and theion from warren buffet. >> it's not chump change but not a big deal. i like the big and little. i like more like donating your time. my grandmother always said do as much as you can for as many people as you can as long as you can. that's what we try to do. >> that's what make this country great founded on charitable giving and volunteerism because giving of your time is just as important. >> we don't have the billion with a b. >> wall street brokers and others have been mall lined but they have put a lot of time and money in there. now, we've arrived. al, as you may have heard is never going back. his new book "never going back" winning the weight loss battle for good. al's advice, i love this, shut your mouth! >> guess what? those of us who are fat, we know it. tell me about this home that has no mirrors. we know we're fat. we know our clothes are tight. you telling us to lose weight, if you just try a little harder, it's not helping us, we already know it. in some cases it makes it

we should note that i'm not sure that house republicans, you talk to allen west and rand paul, they didot come to washington to pass a lot of laws. they came to washington to block what happen president obama was doing. to say they were unproductive, that w that was their intention when they came here. was to slow down legislation, it was not an accident. >> picking up on that point, i think we are witnessing the republicans being successful at the agenda they set. they said at the beginning of president's first term, our one intention is to stop the president. insofar as they have failed in terms of passing legislation, in terms of how they stopped and blocked the president, they have been in too many ways successful. >> we have got to pay bills here, people have to be paid here. we have a lot of folks that work here. we have to take a quick break and when we come back, i want to pick up where we left off, and what happened behind close doors when boehner took members of congress aside for a frank talk. we will talk about that. resources they need. bright students are getting lost in t

representatives allen west and paul ryan, of course, the vice presidential nominee stopped by but all they wanted to talk about were college game scores. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for special. we will cover it all for you, fair, balanced and unafraid. >> i'm rick folbaum in for shepard smith this new year's day. we begin with breaking news on "the fox report." house republicans are getting closer to voting on the senate fiscal cliff bill. first they may try to make some changes to the deal the senate cut with the white house late last night. but senate democrats say there is no time for that we actually already went over the cliff at midnight officially. that means that every american's paycheck is about to shrink. huge spending cuts are about to take effect automatically. the senate bill delays those cuts and prevents tax hikes on families making under $450,000 a year. lots of house republicans say they won't support the senate's bill without more spending cuts. we have team fox coverage. ed henry is live at the white house. but, first to mike emanuel l

but when you go to the ron paul, there's so many cool things have been direct to campaigns. anyone see the amy allenron paul revolution? if you haven't seen it, look at it. she came and performed live when they did the minneapolis rally at the same time as the republican convention. she came and performed one of my campaign events and my dad came and campaigned for me at january january 2010. but just bringing a certain sense of coolness to it that you weren't seen anywhere else. you didn't have any candidates get on the page. you may not have anything who when asked about the war and how to end it said we just marched in, we can just march out. couldn't be any simpler than that for any less fearful than to say something like that. you have a guy who would go to the debate in miami that the latin american sponsored debate and say we need to end the trade embargo. he's not going away. when he first stood up and talked about blowback him i believed the south carolina primary in 2008 he said that to booze and he wasn't sure how people would respond. interestingly with a lot of negative response, but th

but when you go to the ron paul, there's so many cool things have been direct to campaigns. anyone see the amy allenron paul revolution? if you haven't seen it, look at it. she came and performed live when they did the minneapolis rally at the same time as the republican convention. she came and performed one of my campaign events and my dad came and campaigned for me at january january 2010. but just bringing a certain sense of coolness to it that you weren't seen anywhere else. you didn't have any candidates get on the page. you may not have anything who when asked about the war and how to end it said we just marched in, we can just march out. couldn't be any simpler than that for any less fearful than to say something like that. you have a guy who would go to the debate in miami that the latin american sponsored debate and say we need to end the trade embargo. he's not going away. when he first stood up and talked about blowback him i believed the south carolina primary in 2008 he said that to booze and he wasn't sure how people would respond. interestingly with a lot of negative response, but th

paul ryan was a fan of bechard and it's backed away from that now. there's so many cool things have been through campaigns. anybody see the amy allen ron paul revolution song? if you haven't seen it, look at. she came and performed live when they did the minneapolis rally at the same time as the republican convention. she came and performed upon them a campaign event for my dad came in january 2010. they just bring in a certain sense of coolness to it if she weren't seen anywhere else. he didn't have many candidates get on the stage. you may not have any sense to when asked about the war and how to and it said we just marched in, we can just march out. couldn't be any simpler than that for any less fearful than to say something like that. you had a guy who would go to the debate in miami that the latin american sponsored debate and say we need to end the trade embargo. he said that to booze. when he first asked about blowback in the south carolina primary, he said that to booze and he wasn't certain how people would respond. there was a lot of negative response, but there is a whole new positive response of all these new people. i

paul hue ewitt. the successor. and mason. and up by eight. long outlet to brian allen. gets the tough hoop to fall. great pass. better finish. patriots up 7 at the break. second half. down by four. turn it over. patrick holloway. good head up play here. poking ahead to allen. two of 16. mason wins its third straight. 77-67. patriot league action. an american. hosting navy. who is he, you ask? on this night one of the finest three point shooters in all of the land. 8 of 10. 80%. averages under 8 points a game. the grad gets career high 27 tonight. mom and dad looking on. american wins big. 72-49. congratulations to the local kid. >> sweet. off awe >> on fire tonight. at honda, we know some people are never happy with the way things are. and are always dreaming of how they could be. smarter, simpler, how-on-earth-does-it-do-that... er. and they make it that way. because things can always be better. we like those people. they think like us. introducing the best civic sedan yet. made possible by honda. [ male announcer ] from our nation's networks... ♪ ...to our city streets... ♪ ...to skies around the world... ♪

what it is like to serve in a senate with mitch mcconnell and rand paul and the house of representatives with michelle bachmann, and allen a senator who will serve for over 100 days for critical budget negotiations for the health care of massachusetts, massachusetts will not be well-served by a retired judge or a bank executive or a former university president who has to leave her corporate boards and engage in a speed study of subjects she knows now nothing about. the honorable barney frank is ready to serve. he has been trained to serve. he knows the subjects better than most senators will ever, ever know the subjects. and massachusetts will be lucky if he does serve as their next appointed senator, which he will if the greatest governor of all time does the right thing. joining me now, former democratic congressman, the honorable barney frank of massachusetts, thank you for joining us, congressman. >> thank you for the very generous words, lawrence. >> i have made the case that there is nothing more important, i think especially in a temporary appointment like this at a critical time with the budget negotiations, with

allen simpson. among those disappointed is ceo paul stebens, executive chairman of world fuel services.t's an airline services company based in miami. he joins us now. great to have you here. what's wrong with last week's fiscal cliff deal? and do both sides lack the political courage that's needed to really get down to the basics here, to deal with the real issues? >> sure. thanks for having me, thomas. look, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. we had a moment of time, a moment of opportunity to do something comprehensive and we did not. so we haven't ever gotten to the root cause which is the long-term trajectory of the growing entitlements, spending, when we really need comprehensive reform of those to make them insolvent. we didn't get to the tax code reform. you have the debt ceiling and the sequester. you create a level of uncertainty that in the business world means it's very difficult to have any confidence about economic growth. so you've got to eliminate that uncertainty. it does require political will. but political will is difficult when the reality is you've got very wel

paul is there, wizards fall in a tough one. 92-88 the final. against towson, seeking third consecutive win. start things off in the first half, mason controls the rebound. bryan alleneads the break. underneath finds wright for the lay in. he had a game high 24 points. twenty point game of the year. pais tri yachts by 7 at the half. final minute, mason leads by 4. they go underneath to allen who changes hands. lays in two of his 16. george mason defeats towson. its 20th straight win in the series. jeff jones and american hosting navy at bender arena tonight. both teams entering one and two in league play. american got a performance of his career. it is john schultz. he scored 27 points, 24 via the three pointer. he nailed three of eight. just one three shy of a single game school record. steven chipped in 17. american sales passed navy. another score tonight, george washington edges rhode island 66-65. miami hosting top ranked duke tonight. hurricanes ended the first half on a 25-3 run. top ranked duke, yes, second half, shane larkin. miami wins. a first win over the team. the terps are at duke on saturday. coming up, one capitol rose to the occasion despite a loss

want to also acknowledge my wife lillybeth, my son allen, and our son who is in chicago today, we hope, back attending his first day of classes at de paul university. to my friend leon panetta, thank you for your extraordinary service to our country. over so many years in so many capacities. you are one of the premier public servants of our time. to follow you at the department of defense will be a most challenging task, but i will try to live up to the standards that you, bob gates, and others have set for this job and this nation. let me also express my deep appreciation and congratulations to my friend john brennan and to also acknowledge the president's confidence and trust in john brennan. thank you, john, for your service and for what you will continue to do for our country. to mike morrell, who i have gotten to know over the years, not just serving on the senate intelligence committee, but also as the president has noted, the privilege of co-chairing the president's intelligence advisory board with former senator dave boren. thank you, mike are four your continued service. mr. president, i'm grateful for this opportunity to serve

. >>> coming up, paul krugman, republican congresswoman marsha blackburn and chris hughes. up next, mike allenh the top stories in the "politico playbook." but first, here's bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill. >> good monday morning, mika. this is the start of an active week. we have a messy scenario in the northeast at the peak of rush hour. snow and sleet reported through pennsylvania, maryland, d.c. is now over to rain. baltimore to philadelphia, that's probably going to be the worst on i-95 and anywhere here in eastern pa to the border of jersey, right over the next hour or two is when the snow will start, then change over to sleet and eventually freezing rain. a lot of freezing rain around hagerstown. eventually this is all heading up into new england during the day. it's plenty cold enough from hartford to albany to boston, you'll get an inch or two of snow and then freezing rain and sleet on top of it. let me turn your attention, it is 60 degrees right now in st. louis. 45 in chicago. we have this wild swing of weather taking place. we had the winter weather yesterday in chi

paul hewitt and right now george mason is good. and they got another big win last night. this is sherod right. the patriots up by 7 at that point. second half all mason. allene easy lay in. and mason wins 77-67. they have won 20 straight in the series. patriots second place in the caa. how about this. miami taking on number one duke. they ran a clinic on the duke. the number one team . mike doesn't even want to watch. they storm the court down there in miami. number one is done. duke gets blown out. 90-63. >> what? >>e down by over 30. miami is coached by jim larinega doing big things down there. that's the good news. the bad news is maryland plays at duke saturday. when you see coach k going like this you know he's going to have them ready to play. you hate to see a mad team. >> that's domination. all right. thank you , dave. >> thank you. very professionally done. >> io . now some redskins are dooped by a fake woman. coming up, how the team stepped in before anyone was catfished as they call it. >> ♪ oh, say does that star spangled ♪ . >> plus stars show their support for beyonce as she remains silent. 8:38. we will be right back. 19 degrees out there on

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