i understand entirely about the perlmutter relationship and perlmutter correctly saw there could be a gigantic write-off with fox, that write-off with fox has dogged iger, who is sensitive to it. but it's his it's not chapek. >> they are very sensitive to fox, as you say. they spend a good amount of time in their deck here responding talking about the fox transaction being critical to position in the company for the direct to consumer business, of course, they point out as well that remember, they did get $15 billion back from our parent company, comcast, when they bought sky out of that here's one of the more damning things that comes out of the background despite months of engagement had not presented a single strategic idea for disney, that their assessment seemed oblivious to the secular change ongoing in the media industry >> this is a vicious quote i know this instantly got very personal i do believe that peltz to some degree feels there needs to be a discipline in the board. there were some people who felt this board lacked leadership the difficult thing is mark parker isn't he

perlmutter. mr. perlmutter: i want to thank the panel and all your colleagues for your persistence and perseverance with this project. because it had a few ups and downs over the course of its life. i want to thank this committee for its patience because the scientific product -- products that have come from this just remarkable. so dr. batalha i want to start with you. how do you choose what exoplanets you are going to study? you said there is a whole bunch of them. but you pick 70. then i am going to talk to you dr. finkelstein. how do you choose what galaxies you want to look at? dr. batalha: great question. there are over 5000 exoplanets that we know of but not all of them are bright enough for us to study their atmosphere. even with web. so there is a nasa mission called tess which is doing all sky survey to find transiting exoplanets that are near the solar system. those are the ones for which we can get really good precision, parts per million precision, to seek these bumps and wiggles in the

perlmutter is a bankruptcy attorney. you could tell by's question. i would like to enter into the record the indictment of sound -- by the southern district of new york that was unsealed this morning. in a separate filings from the securities and exchange commission, and the commodity futures trading commission, both of which were filed this morning. with that, the gentleman from michigan mr. huizenga will be recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. i'm gonna get my colleague to shift a little bit, or get up. thank you. one quick question. have you've been sharing your findings with the scc at all? as you've been going through? this >> yes. >> how about the southern district of new york? >> yes. >> okay. i'm going to get to a couple of practical questions. these were the things i was gonna ask you and ask mr. bankman-fried. in your declaration, you said the quote ftx. com platform was not available to users, how earlier this month, the cftc chairmen -- 2% of funds house that ftx. com -- can you confirm whether there were u.s. individuals or persons

it's just a a a totally different, you know, i think somebody maybe like ed perlmutter, i don't know he's retiring, though, this year. guy from colorado ran, from a kind of a centrist district. it's just a totally vibe. i mean, here's the question i would ask. so i talk a about congress and what happened with the court and the confirmations and everybody says, my talks always end up too much, be too much of a downer. right? it's like, yeah, i don't know going to happen. i mean, what's the way out? right. i think that's what people want to hear is how can this change somehow and how can you turn it back. i honestly, i have an answer, so that's a great question jim henson and then i'm coming to you promised jim henson you want to pick up that? i think when enough people are up with what's going on now, i thought it was going to happen. and then trump comes along. i think if you if you put your faith in something and it is abuse your faith, then i think you say, i don't want anymore and i want to turn to something else. and i think we might be to have decent government with enough peopl

perlmutter. >> i want to thank the panel and all your colleagues for your persistence and your perseverance. with this project. because, we had a few ups and downs over the course of its life, and i want to thank this committee for its patients. because the scientific products that have come from this are just remarkable. so, doctor patel, yeah i want to start with you. how do you choose what exoplanets you are going to study? you had said there are a whole bunch of them, but you picked 70. and then i'm going to talk to you, doctor finkelstein how do you choose what galaxies you want to look at? >> great question. there are over 5000 exoplanets that we know of. but not all of them are bright enough for us to study their atmospheres, even with webb. so there is a nasa mission called test which is doing an all-skype survey to find transiting exoplanets or near the solar system. those are the ones for which we can get really good precision to see these bumps, and wiggles, in the spectrum that are telling us about the presence of molecules. so, the list gets whittled down. there are still hundr

to hit an opening bell here for a minute you know, i know you have a long relationship with ike perlmutterd i'm curious as to whether he's advising you at all, what role, if any, he's playing in terms of how you're thinking about disney, because he has no love for iger anymore. i think thhe's bitter about kev feige taking over certain parts of the role there. >> i'm friends with a lot of disney shareholders, a lot of them a lot of the disney shareholders have voted for me in the past. a lot of index funds -- there aren't a lot of mutual funds left in the company because they don't see the future maybe they're coming in now. so, i know i -- i know many other shareholders of disney, and if any of -- if there's a shareholder of disney that's happy with what's going on, that guy's been short the stock >> that's a good point >> you'll have to ask him. >> nelson, how do you see this proxy fight playing out? obviously, we're very happy to have you communicating with us first here on cnbc i would assume you'll be doing that but we've got universal proxy access i think it may be the first time you'