"reacher, reacher!" i'm trying to get away from her.andmothers watching your stuff. >> jimmy: did you put her in a headlock? [ laughter ] >> yeah, i kicked her like i kicked the bumper on the car, dude, her head exploded. >> jimmy: i don't know if you know this, tom cruise played jack reacher in the movies, then they fired him and replaced him with you. >> one cheer? guys. >> jimmy: maybe they felt it was rude to cheer the other jack reacher. >> we're all -- there's enough to go around. >> jimmy: i see. >> we can be friends. >> jimmy: did you -- >> here's the thing. >> jimmy: did -- reach out to tom? >> yes, i wrote tom a letter. >> jimmy: that's a good way to go. >> i wrote wrote him a heartfelt letter. here's the thing. i know what you know. he's taken some criticism for the role. because it doesn't aesthetically fit the role of reacher perfectly according to the books. not a big deal. this guy still did two movies that grossed over $300 million and doesn't even -- that's a huge -- he's brought so many eyes to this series. we would no

so far, reacher said only scratch the surface.o make real progress they have to shoulder the task full-time, approach it in a systematic way and keep at it indefinitely. the best place tonm start was wh the 24 hour cycles of sleep and waking. word of these rhythms come from? but with their essential characteristics customer to what extent could they be modified? how would such changes affect human health? probing these questions he sense could keep the scientists busy for a very long time. so, sometime in 19202 he proposed this course of study to his phd advisor who warned him he would be entirely on his own right know it at the university knew enough about sleep to supervise him. she was bright and self-motivated scholar the warning sounded like a blessing. after earning his doctorate he joined the faculty at the university ofre chicago established the world's first dedicated sleep lab. for the next three decades he remained the world's only full-time sleep researcher. devoted to a field no one else thought worthy of sustained at

for the same reason they know i like jack reacher.y push that to me. >> they got the new season of reacher, they've got it out. >> it's fantastic. i've read every reacher book. >> beating the hell out of everybody. >> he's a big fella. i look at what amazon does and i say to myself, i just don't want to -- walmart in quakertown, a nice enough walmart. i think walmart is doing incredibly well. i was going to take a picture and send and say, i love your fresh food area. the stock is now up. they're in for the fight of their lives and yet still sells at 24 times earnings. p pill fridge is down. >> perhaps it won't be the same topic as it was in 2023. for the year, at&t and verizon are both up. how about that? pretty impressive, huh? >> they had a comeback last year where there was concern about their dividend. a lot of that was a series of articles about cable -- a cable issue that would be considered -- >> the lead-wrapped. that went away. >> the dividend was really not -- the dividend had already been cut. dividend not in doubt for ver

one week i'm watching an excellent reacher episode, highly recommended.th commercials? no thank you. i will pay that three dollars. or take tesla, the one member of the magnificent seven we do not own. this morning the always creative adam jones reiterated his price target for this stock based on a whole host of what he calls beyond auto kinds of reasons. we may think of tesla as a vehicle company on a discounted cash flow basis. but the some of their other parts, financial services, a possible deal with chinese electric vehicle makers, opportunities and insurance, ridesharing, tesla energy. among all of that he thinks the parts and stock could be worth $380. how many companies have that kind of option allergy and then there are these do nana -- nano ray bans. you say hey meta and you can answer a call. unlike every other attempt at smart glasses these look like simple ray bans. you can't even tell the difference. that could be meaningful demo line. when you sell or even just trim any of the seven something always seems to come up that makes you regret it

and it's not bush. >> the body count in "reacher" is very high >> not in the actual books in the bookspeople are beaten to a pulp, but they don't die. >> he's just snuffing people out. >> he's hands-on >> on your neck. >>> all right, we got an opening bell a few minutes from now. don't forget, you can catch us any time and anywhere by listening to and following the "squawk on the street: opening bell" podcast. to duckduckgo on all your devie duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine like google, but it's pi and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it blocks cooi and creepy ads that follow youa from google and other companie. and there's no catch. it's fre. we make money from ads, but they don't follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. [♪♪] [♪♪] [♪♪] [♪♪] your skin is ever-changing, take care of it with gold bond's different formulations of 7 moisturizers and 3 vitamins. for all your skins, gold bond. there is a lot of information out there. hamas slaughtered more than

rosamund pike, she's very good she's in reacher, which good and she's in reacher, which is a good film's because british men are the best, but they can't admit that, you know, because it's all woke. so they have to just not give us any awards because we just win all. otherwise just win them all. otherwise yeah, it not just yeah, but, nick, is it not just the case that this year it happened be case that the happened to be the case that the best from abroad? happened to be the case that the bestbecause from abroad? happened to be the case that the bestbecause mean,1 abroad? happened to be the case that the bestbecause mean, leo,oad? happened to be the case that the bestbecause mean, leo, the’ no, because i mean, leo, the baftas just to award baftas are not just to award british actors. is this british actors. so why is this a problem? i don't, i think be though is it. that's what i thought was. it's not thought it was. no, it's not i mean it's not. so i mean, isn't this just a non—story? to borrow louis demand representation. >> oh , is what want? >> oh, is that what you want? yeah, yeah

basically, jack reacher is going to stop the boats. well this is boats. frances.esting story. and it's. so the home office have hired this private military firm . and these are these are these private military firms are run and staffed by former soldiers, former intelligence officers, very , very high level. they tend very, very high level. they tend to work in things like the israel—hamas war or the russia's invasion of ukraine. but our situation when it comes to illegal immigration is so dire that essentially we are going to get the sas in to try and stop the illegal boats . is it a bad the illegal boats. is it a bad idea, though? i mean, the care for calais are calling it shirking responsibility, but isn't it sort of pragmatic ? isn't it just sort of pragmatic? no, i mean, i don't trust anything public. i only trust private. you it done private. you you want it done properly? go private. private. you you want it done pro yeah. go private. private. you you want it done pro yeah. go priv.it's nothing to >> yeah. no, no, it's nothing to do , accountability. do wit

so if you're watching "reacher," which is a 48-minute episode.et 12 minutes of commercials. i've got to tell you, for $2.99, i'm happy to be commercial-free. what's going to happen is pure margin expansion, and that's going to be one of the reasons why andy jassy, whom i sat down with last year, is talking about the opportunities, the opportunities for a lot of upside. you get rid of amazon, and you switch to general mills, and general mills reports, and people say, blue buffalo, i don't know, this competitive dog feed. there's no competitive dog food to amazon. >> i mean, they do have competition in cloud, but would you argue they're best in class? >> i mean, it's -- yes. >> really? >> yes. i think they have the least expensive, most robust cloud offering. they also were the biggest adopters of what nvidia's selling. by the way, meta, huge adopter. and people don't understand. i remember when i spoke to jensen huang, he said he speaks to mark zuckerberg constantly, and sure enough, the ray-bans are filled with a.i. i mean, i wear ray-bans. my ra

and then in afterwards, reachers laid -- rachel slade shares her book which looks at the challenges ofturing in the united states the eyes of a sweatshirt firm. watch booktv every sunday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide her watch anytime online at booktv.org. washington journal continues. host: our next guest is ken cuccinelli, founder of never back down a super pac found -- supporting ron desantis and then he served as the truck -- in the trump foundation. thank you for giving us your time. guest: my pleasure and good to be with you. host: how do you describe or explain that you work for the former president and yet you are not endorsing him this time around? guest: needless to say it is a question i get a lot. i was the acting deputy secretary at the department of homeland security and i worked closely with president trump. i am not in the anti-trump category, but i saw how much more effective we could have been with better leadership and better decision-making, more follow-through, and more determination, frankly. i believe that ron desantis has those traits