peter: alan, your take? alan: i think we need to take the british position more seriously, which is that the main glue of europe is the common market, trade. europe has to create jobs, has to create economic growth. if it does that, people will fudge the political issues. if europe doesn't do that, and look at the eurozone, anemic growth everywhere except germany, if you go down that path, you can't generate growth. what do you expect? peter: we have to leave it there. interesting stuff from alan posener, judy, and wojciech. thanks very much indeed. will europe survive? maybe. stay with us. come back next week. #ññóóóóawúwóóóóó damien: hello and welcome to a special new year's edition of "focus on europe," after what's certainly been an eventful year for the whole continent. so today, we're going to look back at the big issues that shaped 2015 with a reminder of some of our favourite stories. in greece, the refugee who's racing towards a new life in europe. the dutch relatives looking for answers after th

peter: alan, your take? alan: i think we need to take the british position more seriously, which is that the main glue of europe is the common market, trade. europe has to create jobs, has to create economic growth. if it does that, people will fudge the political issues. if europe doesn't do that, and look at the eurozone, anemic growth everywhere except germany, if you go down that path, you can't generate growth. what do you expect? peter: we have to leave it there. interesting stuff from alan posener, judy, and wojciech. thanks very much indeed. will europe survive? maybe. stay with us. come back next week. # [indistinct yelling] [yelling in native language] robert: many of us are trying to find ways to build a more sustainable world for future generations. we're concerned that our planet's well-being isn't as secure as it once seemed. but, on every continent, there are new environmentalists who are committed to change. whether it's an individual, a small group, or a grass roots organization, they've ma

peter: alan, your take? alan: i think we need to take the british position more seriously, which is that the main glue of europe is the common market, trade. europe has to create jobs, has to create economic growth. if it does that, people will fudge the political issues. if europe doesn't do that, and look at the eurozone, anemic growth everywhere except germany, if you go down that path, you can't generate growth. what do you expect? peter: we have to leave it there. interesting stuff from alan posener, judy, and wojciech. thanks very much indeed. will europe survive? maybe. stay with us. come back next week. 8úxú [applause] wallace: [unclear] just a sec. i am, uh, exhausted by that introduction. i don't know about you. i didn't realize that all of that happened, uh, until just right now. [audience laughing] so, i'm gonna catch my breath and, uh, i--i live in the santa cruz mountains with my partner dana and our daughters grace and julia and we live on mill creek. and we live with jaguars. we live

, peter. >> now. >> right here, peter. >> now. >> right here, peter. >> now. [ laughter ] >> there you are. >> hey, bud. [ laughter ] you found me. >> i was looking for you. >> good work, team murr. >> all right, joe. here you go, bud. >> all right, fellas. "present your crotch in a grand fashion." >> you're presenting it as a gift. >> all right. let's get grand out here. >> now! >> [ laughgh] >> so weird. just staring at him. >> hey, bud. >> now. >> [ lghs ] >> you look like an idiot. >> i feel like an idiot. >> all: now. >> [ laughing ] oh, my god. >> we will not stop until you get everyone in this park. now. >> now. now. >> now. [ laughter ] >> he jumped! he jumped! >> this is my life. >> what do you got? paper time. here goes team murr. >> "put a piece of gum in your mouth," boys? >> yes. >> every time we say "now."& >> i don't have any gum. >> i do. >> [ laughs ] >> of course. >> seven packs of bubble gum. >> [ laughs ] >> i iant to show you how big each piece of gum is. this is a massive -- this is not like... how much will you give me if i eat that? h! aah! >> i'm done. >> aah!

peter: holy...llison: yeah, that's a little -- [ laughs ] lemonis: this building is gonna cost me just under $1 million, and i'll have to spend another $1 million to get it right -- a $2 million investment. i've already spent close to $4 million at sweet pete's, and this will take my total investment to $6 million. peter: you could take the third floor and make that retail space, too. lemonis: in order to be successful in business, you have to be willing to take risk. but it has to be somewhat calculated. we know we need more storage, and we know we need more classrooms, and we know we need more retail. most of my money is going into real estate, which is a lot safer, but i also know that people like fun and they like candy. it's not a fad. it's here to stay. all right, let's head back. so, the first quarter in 2015, we did $538,000 compared to like $35,000 the year before. -allison: yeah. -peter: that's a big difference. oh. lemonis: with this business doing as much as it is today, what would you s

david peters. >> i don't remember a time where i don't know him.robably met each other when we were like 3. >> we played a lot. we took some soap and [ bleep ] [ bleep ] something to play with e inur room. >> can't have cards. >> can't have nothing, radio, nothing. just me and him. we call them sominos, they're a mix of dominos and soap. you know what i mean? >> that was the first time i seen him in years. it felt good to see him, even though under these circumstances we're both incarcerated. >> me and him, whole city of boston basically, the bloody bean, you know, we all over the building. >> you get addicted to the lifestyle. you get addicted to the streets, the whole long night, fast life, money, cars, fast women, everything that comes along with it. and you just get a rush from that after a while. >> that's a gun right here on my ribs. it's an einstein quote, you have to learn the rule of the game and play them better than anyone else. i kind of applied that -- i took it to my side and kind of applied it too the streets. >> like bloodworth, pet

peter: in the coming days, tony. you'll be hearing from the secretary in the coming days. >> ok, fair enough. >> yes. >> does this building feel the current strategy in afghanistan s a winning military strategy? peter: as i said, we have confidence that the current strategy will support the afghan security forces, the afghan government so they can take control of their country. they are not there yet. this is an ongoing effort, one that's constantly under review. the secretary talks and has spoken recently with the president, with abdullah. he's confident in the afghan government and their commitment to moving the security forces forward, making tough decisions there. and so at this point the department of defense, the secretary's confident that support we're providing to the afghan security forces is not only necessary but it's improving their capability, improving their resiliency and that the afghan forces remain in the lead but they're going to need the support of u.s. forces and other international partners goin

peter: who was robert morris? sciencee was a computer student, the son of an nsa official, it turns out. he wanted to see if you could let something loose that would crawl around the internet by itself. differentpeople have memories. his account became that it was a programming error that replicated with a degree of frenzy he did not anticipate. but it did crash computers all over the world. early,ght was relatively so it's not as if a lot of things went down, electrical grids or things along those lines, but it did cause a high degree of havoc. he was later convicted for computer abuse. but he is now a professor at m.i.t.. it didn't turn out all bad for .im once you connect everything, all sorts of things can happen. someone in moscow or manila can reach out and touch me on a computer sitting in my home. peter: was professor morris looking to cause harm when he created this worm? it doesn't seem so. he was attempting to solve a computer science riddle. he just created something that crawled around and found its w

peter: well, i think that the debates have gotten huge audiences. i mean, you know, you get 24 million, 25 million, 18 million people watching these debates. the coverage of the, especially the republican primary, has been you've watched donald trump go to the top of the heap and stay there without a single commercial. so he's going up in iowa and new hampshire. he throws up his hands and says, i don't know whether i am wasting my money or not. fernando: although he now has a new ad, avery controversial ad which is sort of a spectrum of people he doesn't like. i guess that would be the polite way of putting it. >> the politicians can pretend it is something else, but donald trump calls it radical islamic terrorism. peter: the usual approach with beginning, is to do bio ads. and he doesn't need a bio ad. a lot of candidates don't think they really need bio ads. so what they are doing is they're going right to the hot-button issues. and in this case, it's terrorism. it's immigration. despite the fact that it doesn't appear to be moroccan immigration,

-peter: marcus, i'm peter. -steve: marcus, i'm steve. -lemonis: nice to meet you.-steve: nice to meet you, too. lemonis: skullduggery, a family-run toy design and manufacturing company in anaheim, california, was exactly the sort of company that i felt had great potential. the company had generated $1.6 million in sales the previous year, but they were still losing money. steve: it's a big loss. lemonis: and while they had one or two products that had real potential, most of their products were missing the mark and collecting dust. i don't get this game. it's not fun. but if i can increase their visibility on the toys that were selling and push them to create new toys, i knew i could turn skullduggery around. so, i did a deal, and i invested $1.1 million for 30% of the company and an ongoing sales royalty. so, i want to be able to have control over the financial side. i don't want you taking on any debt or taking on any other partners without me being okay with it. -steve: i think that's fair. -peter: you want to shake on it? lemonis: and do we need to run this by

peter: well, i think that the debates have gotten huge audiences. i mean, you know, you get 24 million, 25 million, 18 million the coverage of the, especially the republican primary, has been you' ve watched donald trump go to the top of the heap and stay there without a single commercial. so he' s going up in iowa and new hampshire. he throws up his hands and says, i don' t know whether i am fernando: although he now has a new ad, avery controversial ad which is sort of a spectrum of people he doesn' t like. i guess that would be the polite way of putting it. >> the politicians can pretend it is something else, but donald trump calls it radical islamic terrorism. peter: the usual approach with early primaries, at the beginning, is to do bio ads. and he doesn' t need a bio ad. a lot of candidates don' t think they really need bio ads. so what they are doing is they' re going right to the hot-button issues. and in this case, it' s terrorism. it' s immigration. despite the fact that it doesn' t immigration, where he shows this moroccan footage where h

peter fenn, president of the fenn communications group, has the winners and losers. peter: we are seeing commercials in iowa and new hampshire. fernando: what is your take so far? peter: the closer you get to the election, the more ads you will see, going after the last-minute deciders, folks who haven't quite made up their mind, who are leaning toward one candidate or the other, and no candidate wants to be left out. so it's kind of a war of campaign ads. but i tell you, i think in this cycle ads have played a much less important role than they have in the past. fernando: and what's your peter: well, i think that the debates have gotten huge audiences. i mean, you know, you get 24 million, 25 million, 18 million people watching these debates. the coverage of the, especially the republican primary, has been very intense. you've watched donald trump go to the top of the heap and stay there without a single commercial. so he's going up in iowa and new hampshire. he throws up his hands and says, i don't know whether i am wasting my money or not. fernando: although he no

peter johnson junior? >> chris christie is not breaking through. i don't think he's going to break through. the top three, ted cruz won the birther issue. marco rubio was pretty good over all, but i believe donald trump won this debate big, big time. big time. >> monica? your thoughts? who won the debate? >> i think there were a couple defining moments. one was ted cruz. he needed to handle the eligibility question that had been raised by donald trump. and he needed to handle it with facts and finesse. i think he did both of those things but i think donald trump owned the two other defining moments during this debate. the first is what you just played when he handled cruz's attack on new york values. it was pitch perfect. his tone, his content, the fact it was unscripted and came from the heart. i think it was brilliantly handled. the other defining moment which i agree with peter, won him this debate, when asked about his personal business interests versus the national interests. he responded again in a very heart felt emotional way and said look,

peter: is the website blocked? are the airwaves blocked from people hearing or finding radio free asia? john: for the most part, yes. peter: how do you get around that? john: in terms of the internet, there are investments that we make in our internet freedom program. it allows people to circumvent the censorship and access free content in places like china. that is another thing that bbg does that many people are not aware of, and that is our open technology fund and are internet freedom office which invests, through congress, and the appropriations, invest in technology that help people access the internet and other media that they otherwise the not able to access about the technology. peter: do you have any idea what the penetration of the rescission is in iraq and syria? john: fairly impressive. 25%-20% on a weekly basis. i will say this, to your question that while our reach is important, whether it is then a rock or anywhere else, increasingly, michael is for us to measure impact the aunt reach. any media is

peter johnson junior? >> chris christie is not breaking through. i don't think he's going to break through. the top three, ted cruz won the birther issue. marco rubio was pretty good over all, but i believe donald trump won this debate big, big time. big time. >> monica? your thoughts? who won the debate? >> i think there were a couple defining moments. one was ted cruz. he needed to handle the eligibility question that had been raised by donald trump. and he needed to handle it with facts and finesse. i think he did both of those things but i think donald trump owned the two other defining moments during this debate. the first is what you just played when he handled cruz's attack on new york values. it was pitch perfect. his tone, his content, the fact it was unscripted and came from the heart. i think it was brilliantly handled. the other defining moment which i agree with peter, won him this debate, when asked about his personal business interests versus the national interests. he responded again in a very heart felt emotional way and said look,

pamela, peter and trashelle are still with me. obetter understand the events that led up to a city of 100,000 people tainted with toxins. peter, what are we talking about as far as the minimum best practices after worst practices, what has to be done in flint, since obviously we haven't saved any money, we're going to spend much much more money. >> they're going to have to find a water source that provides high quality water to put into the system. the second thing is they're going to have to identify which parts of the system, which pipes in which homes are going to have bad water delivery systems. street by street, house by house and test every single source of water to make sure that the clean water that goes into the top is clean water that comes out at the tap. and the third thing they're going to have to do is going to have to build back the public trust in the system. and the only way to do that is by education, by careful monitoring so people trust what's coming out of their taps throughout the system. and then by helping

peter: they have gone heavy with technology.ce the olive the traditional way of producing it is very, very labor intensive, because you have trees that are hard to machine, and california olive ranch, instead of fixing the machine, they have fixed the tree. they have planted a type of tree that can grow more like a bush, and because of that, they can get this two-story mechanical harvester to drive right over the tree. it is pretty amazing to watch. you might think it would crush the tree, but it drives right over it and has the sort of tubes that mimic hands, and the olives are picked off of the tree and onto a conveyor belt, and then off they go in a couple of an hours to the mill. carol: talk to us about this battle we're seeing between california olive ranch and those doing it in europe for many, many years. peter: it is sort of a new world and old world oil. it has been controlled out of italy and spain. the international olive council is in majority, and they are very focused on the idea that you cannot produce really grea

peter: had to, life was miserable otherwise. people would lave at you and you were a freak if you walked around, there'd be a crowd of 20 watching you, with ch is entertaining for a little while but it becomes really warey. it was hard for us the first six months. i wasn't thinking of myself as a writer. i was a teacher. and i mean, the first thing i saw was the way the u.s. looked to my students. y students were all from rural szechuan. it was hard to get into college in those days. we had textbooks, there was a textbook we were supposed to teach from, the culture of america. it was the most ridiculous thing. they'd have a section on college life in america and just have all these things like, you know, 15 students raped at the university of south carolina and then there were students robbed a at the university of south carolina. it was all over the place. just random facts, you know. and you know, there's a big section on homosexuality and how capitalism causes homosexuality. they didn't get to the point, gay people get to --

thank you, peter, showing us the trajectory of this. we want to take you near the is the area you might be familiar with, ocean drive where it turns into midnight pass. lots of beach front condos. >> very familiar with it. this siesta key is a beach community. not a big area at all. >> peter bernard is there live. what can you sh? >>reporter: good afternoon, guys, as the morning has turned into the afternoon, there is news to report here at the beach condo complex and that is that the place has been condemned. >> all right. looks like we lost peter but we had him with enough of time to get the tidbit. the excalsier condos now condemned meaning people can't stay there. they will have to find a new place to stay. we saw just extensive damage. >> that is not really easy at this time. this is peak tourism season right now, along florida's west coast but especially in siesta key. you have to remember, dr. beach best beaches in the world known for the beautiful, pristine, white sands and a community that just rolls out the red carpet for visi

i want to repeat that, peter.how much daily policing goes on. 99.1% of officers not accused of misconduct. and so, one thing that i heard from family members and policing experts alike is it is important to look at the problems, it is important to talk about reform and figure out ways to improve policing, but a lot of those conversations about misconduct don't reflect and the numbers bear this out, the daily work of officers. >> really important context for the conversation. thank you for that. >> thank you. >>> also coming up after the break, more on the americans released from iran and the future of american-iranian relations. >>> and brace for it. a hard landing indeed. we'll show you how the space-x rocket went up or i guess we should say down in flames. billy, and i quit smoking with chantix. i had a lot of doubts going in. i was a smoker. hands down, it was... that's who i was. after one week of chantix, i knew i could quit. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. cha

peter: there are no sacred cows.h this create more value in the hands of some more other than ourselves. matt: we will hear more from peter hancock later this hour when he sits down with betty liu at the new york stock exchange. right now, i am joined by sonali basak here on set. this hancockhis is caving to carl icahn? sonali: icahn was the earning potential his job. he had to say something. he promised asset sales since ant year, but now we have accelerated pace. he said nine modular businesses, , re of which are core to aig -- areabs someday, maybe for grabs someday, maybe. icahn is the only activist investor threatening hancock? he only has about 50% stake. sonali: john paulson also rallied behind icahn. he sent three letters, the first in october. matt: i am sure you are familiar with the holdings function on the terminal to show you who is control of the company. if you go into holdings and click on carl icahn's stake, it is interesting to note the graphic. carl icahn's building stake in green. the price of aig

peter krauss. >> i trust her judgment. >> attorney peter cross agreed to see if there's truth to eric's story but there was still one problem. this is not the law you normally practice. >> no, not at all. i'm a corporate lawyer. i do corporate litigation. i don't do criminal work. >> shar main was his assistant. >> out of the blue one day i get this call. you have a collect call from -- an inmate at sing sing >> soon she found herself spending hours on the phone with the inmate. >> at first, it was all, you know, business, case, case. by the time you talk to somebody every day, personal things start to slip in. >> friendship. >> friendship. >> in the meantime, her boss was ams of innocence. did you believe at the beginning? >> i'm not going to say i didn't disbelieve.or a listening time. okay? >> and people law. >> they certainly color the truth. this is a man who was convicted of murdering someone.ourse, i approached it with some skepticism. >> once cross learned the facts, he agreed to take eric's case at no charge. man who didn't seem hardened by prison but almost frightened. >> it's

peter johnson junior? >> chris christie is not breaking through.'t think he's going to break through. the top three, ted cruz won the birther issue. marco rubio was pretty good over all, but i believe donald trump won this debate big, big time. big time. >> monica? your thoughts? who won the debate? >> i think there were a couple defining moments. one was ted cruz. he needed to handle the eligibility question that had been raised by donald trump. and he needed to handle it with facts and finesse. i think he did both of those things but i think donald trump owned the two other defining moments during this debate. the first is what you just played when he handled cruz's attack on new york values. it was pitch perfect. his tone, his content, the fact it was unscripted and came from the heart. i think it was brilliantly handled. the other defining moment which i agree with peter, won him this debate, when asked about his personal business interests versus the national interests. he responded again in a very heart felt emotional way and said look, if i'

peter: are you trustworthy or -- trump: very trustworthy. more so than you because you know what, you didn't read the question. peter: i'll read it now: i'm very pro- choice, i hate the concept of abortion. trump: you didn't read -- why didn't you say when you asked the question before, that i hate the concept of abortion? trump: do you apologize? do you apologize? peter: do i apologize for reading your words? trump: for not reaeang my words! no no, for not reading my words. do you apologize for not reading my words. >> there was local reaction today to trump's decision not to participate in the debate tomorrow night. a professor from briar cliff university in sioux city weighed in on how he thinks voters may react to the announcement . he says he thinks it won't have significant impact on trump's die- hard supporters. "trump has recently said you know he could shoot someone in new york city and not lose any supporters, and so, if that's true then maybe stepping out of the fox debate won't cause him to lose supporters either," said kyle irvi

peter before -- about this plan beforehand? very briefly.oke on the phone brie betty: do you agree with some of the moves today, like selling part of the -- hank: i don't think it does very much. much.sn't do very look, it's not the same company. it has -- it is a much smaller company. the largest insurance company in history, and the most successful. betty: some of the critics have said that you should separate the life and the pnc, and part of it has to do with the systemically important designation on aig. why not get rid of that the way that life is, for instance? hank: metlife is a different company. i think that's a mistake, for several reasons. businessth classes of gives you a better balance, one supports the other, one is a little soft, the other is probably not. betty: that is what hancock says too. in any event, is seems to me that aig should be contesting the designation. betty: how should they contest that? hank: i assume there's a regulation or law. you challenge it. betty: go to court? hank: if you have to. we did that. betty:

peter. >> thank you patrick great pleasure to be meerp great honor. i really appreciate the new center for americans sponsoring this and patrick a special thanks to you. when i was doing filming for this documentary and book and interviews patrick was kind enough to put up with us. we got stranded out beyond the beltway in a torrential rain. got here two hours late, it was 8 at night. it was just horrible weather. he lets i into into his office and redecorate the whole thing so it looked nice. we put everything back. but the interview was even better than his hospitality. so i thank you patrick. my mission today really -- is to talk about an issue which i think is one of the most pressing issue was our nuclear times, and one which i hope would become front and center in the 2016 presidential election. so emission here is to use the crouching tiger book, to discuss these themes against the back drop of what is today an american history a very serious and somber day we're celebrating the 24th anniversary of the pearl harbor attack and we should never fo

reid: i called peter, and peter said, we are going to actually probably going to sell paypal.don't have a business model at the time. but it would be really useful for us, because you know all of this stuff, could you come help us organize the company and sell it? if i could be helpful, i would be happy to step in and do that. we did not sell it, we took it public and sold it to ebay after we took it public. and so what was supposed to be a six-month tour of duty turned into a three-year tour of duty. and -- well, the paypal story is long and fun. emily: and legend. when did it start being called the mafia? reid: you know, i don't really know. it might have been with the "fortune" article. i am always hesitant about the term. the mafia implies dark rooms, you know, extortionate practices -- these kinds of things. it's clever, it gets repeated. it implies a dense, tight network, you know, where people are tight with each other. what i would call it is much less evocative. the paypal network is what i would call it. it probably started six to 12 months after the ebay acquisition

that is what senators stop and on on and peters have been working for. they do not want any political victory, they need the help. we welcome our colleagues on the other side of the aisle to join us quickly on this issue. the amendment provides the kinds of large resources that are desperately needed, at the same time it holds the state of michigan accountable. i think it is very appropriate that there is a dollar for dollar match. yes, the federal government will step in but michigan has to step up to the plate to, particularly given the state's role in the governor and appoint his role in the crisis. as senator said last night, confidence and trust in state officials is low in michigan and the federal government needs to step in to get a handle on the crisis. we are begging, pleading with our colleagues on the other side of the aisle to help us solve this in a bipartisan way. the four pieces of the legislation deal with things that we need, accountability and transparency in government. we cannot hide what government does, whether it is at the federal,

so i decided to put one of our top investigative reporters on the story, peter elkind. >> that's the former editor of "fortune" describing the stock option scandal that vereventual became a big story. >> it was a big story. >> in spite of apple's help. it was not an access story. >> definitely not. sometimes when you don't get access, that's when you get a tough investigative journalist like peter to find out the stuff that the fan boy journalists aren't getting. >> people will ask you if this is an anti-steve jobs documentary. >> it's not an anti-steve jobs documentary, it's kind of a meditation on jobs and what he means to us. there's a lot i think i find very important and valuable about steve jobs, but i think there's a certain amount of course correcting we need to do because his values weren't the