had the good fortune of meeting john and bill and colleague richard greenfield at the court house in the fall of '09. what blew me away of aside from myself and one reporter from bloomberg the that cases weren't being fully covered. wait a second, this is literally, i mean, the vortex of where wall street and washington and the regulators come together are rivetting case asking incredible questions that go toward explaining a lot how brad practices played out on wall street. my adrenaline was flowing like never before. and i had a voice my wife would caution me. you better be careful before you hit the send button. i was but going back to the principles that developed know your stuff. know your stuff. document it, connect the dots. john said what about the other case that being one for standard investment charter. i don't know anything about the case. we have other stuff to talk about. i started concurrently running down the security path. the standard investment charter path. learning about whistle blowers who were ignored, intimidated or fired. and thinking, you know, this is wrong

and we continue to track that case and we had the good fortune of meeting john and bill and richard greenfield done at the courthouse in foley square in the fall of 2009. what blew me away is the fact that aside from myself and one reporter from bloomberg that the cases were not being more fully covered. i thought, wait a second. this is literally -- i mean, this is the warp text of where wall street and washington in the regulators all come together, it's such a riveting case, asking incredible questions that to me would go back towards explaining so much of how bad practices actually played out in wall street. my adrenaline was flowing like never before. and i had a voice. although my wife would be like, be careful before you hit that send button on the blog, i wise. but again, going back to the principles that i have developed at holy cross, and know your stuff. you have to know your stuff. document and connect the dots. from this case and then johnson what you know about this other case and i said, i don't know anything about that particular case. and they said that we have some other stuf

and continued to track that case, had the food fortune of meeting john and bill and richard greenfield down at the courthouse in foley square that fall of '09. what blew me away was the tact that aside from -- the fact that aside from myself and one reporter from bloomberg that cases weren't being more fully covered. i was like, wait a second. this is literally, i mean, the vortex of where wall street and washington and the regulators all come together, a riveting case asking incredible questions that to me would go back towards explaining a lot of how bad practices actually played out on wall street. i mean, my adrenaline was flowing like never before. and i had a voice. and although my wife would caution me like you better be careful before you hit that send button on the blog, i was. but again, kind of going back to the principles that developed at boston latin or holy cross, know your stuff. you've got to know your stuff. document it, connect the dots. from the case then john said, well, what do you know about this other case? i said i don't know thinking about that case. he said,

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media analyst richard greenfield joins us on the "squawk" news line. give us perspective. will happen. i think there's the chance you get new bidders. comcast could come out of the woodwork. they could certainly finance this transaction ate hi a highe level than charter. it wants to stay within the $132 bid, gets them somewhere around five times leverage. they may use their currently pending acquisition which liberty is pursue. comcast could come in and do this at a substantially higher value. time warner's cable result are getting better. when you look at the fundamental performance it's going to warn the a higher bid than $132 by a wide margin. >> in the past hour we were talking about this company and i said this company has been undermanaged. maybe that's a euphemism for worse than that. am i wrong? >> look, the results certainly in 2013 leave a lot to be desired. i mean, i think that's being kind. the reality is, that you can't really see a loot of the management changes that were put into place. they went to war with cvs. we can debate the long-term benefits or probl