. >> to my left is robert brian he's a deputy city attorney and he'll provide the board with any legal advice tonight. at the controls is the board's legal assistant victor pa chen koe, i'm the executive director we'll be joined tonight by some of the represents from city departments that had cases before the board i see that raoul shau is here, and also chris buck, urban forester is here also from public works. i believe we'll be joined shortly by scott sanchez, the city zoning administrator who represents the planning commission and joseph duffy senior building inspector representing the department of building inspection. we'll also be representatives here, perhaps they're already in the audience from the department of public health who will be here for those cases that are related to that department. mr. pacheco, if you could please go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> the board requests to turn off all cell phones and pagers so they do not interfere with the proceedings the board's rules of presentation is as follows, appellants, permit hold esinge

so i wanted to ask if miguel gamino or brian roberts wanted to have any comments or responses you don't have to but thank you for being here too and thank you for presenting to our office the connectivity plan as well i definitely see different parts of this within our plan. >> sure good afternoon miguel gamino thank you for the opportunity to comment on the plan, the research and also kind of i think it's an opportunity for me to help connect the dots for a bad pun between our ict plan the connectivity plan and how i believe it begins to help enable addressing the digital divide it does not -- supposed to address it in its entirety but helps create the conversation and enable the foundation for moving some of these things forward and i think the report accurately captures this broader picture of internet use and identifies vulnerable populations and the role should be to provide infrastructure as we are with the proposed expansion of our fiber network sf wifi services previously discussed etc. and my role should be to promote pervasive gig byte services in every neighborhood and an opp

robert, brian says he thinks there's almost 100% chance of approval here.es to what it's going to be. one-half of the combo is on the market. more than $300,000 per patient. the population with the same price or lower. positive news after hours. we're seeing negative news for another biotech accompany. we saw the shares trade down today on bizarre events. remember two months ago we talked about how the stock was up because it looked like how there was an unexpected cardiovascular event. now there's information coming out today saying it may have been too early to say there was a benefit there. some reporting from forbes. matt whose been driving the whole story including the investigator saying the accompany mislead patients and investors. then after hours the ceo of the accompany and a bank of america president defending the accompany and actions saying it did not mislead investors or patients. now the accompany is in a dispute with its partner over whose going to pay for the broad cardiovascular outcome. now down 15%. a very bizarre day. bad news there. a

brian roberts works in a small family business. ing brian earlier, i realized -- i cannot call him the cable guy and more. i will call him the pitch man. that was the great -- that was great. when i saw xfinity in-house, it's like the last inch. it's a new world. i promise not to be painful, but extremely educational as we get a chance to chat with you. so thank you. brian, the video you showed with the explosion come i think you already addressed the elephant in the room. what i would love to do is switch gears. yesterday was a good day for comcast. the earnings announcement is a good example and a good picture as to how the marketplace is changing. subscriber versus the broadband -- i would love to chat about that a little antsy. brian: we have a fabulous company. we have been fortunate enough to be on a wonderful journey that seems to take many twists and turns. i pinch myself every day to work with the team of people and the nbc universal folks. yesterday, all parts of the company seemed to be firing on all s cylinders. we have

brian roberts, as you know, works in a small family business. it's a pretty good business. er watching brian earlier, i realized -- i cannot call him the cable guy and more. i'm going to call him the pitch man. that was great. and clearly while we always talked about the last mile, brian, when i saw xfinity does in house, it's like the last inch. it's a new world. ladies and gentlemen, i promise not to be painful but extremely educational as we get a chance to chat with peter and brian, so thank you. brian, the video you showed with the explosion i think you already addressed the elephant in the room. so i don't think i need to touch on that. but what i would love to do is kind of switch gears. yesterday was a good day for comcast. the earnings announcement i think is a good example and a good picture as to how the marketplace is changing. subscriber versus the broadband -- obviously you talked about it yesterday but i would love to just chat about that a little and how you see that poor tending for the future? >> we have a fabulous company. my father is 95. we have been for

miguel camino camino our chief information officer in the city and the department of technology and brian roberts from the department of technology that's worked on the issues in san francisco for many many years and i'll ask if they can respond to mr.. r u.s. so's report and we have others from the senior and disabled community that will raise the questions on how we can challenge the city to help make seniors less isolated and give them stronger access and we also have a letter from the from the director of organizing from the utility reform network challenging the the monopoly and different challenges in los angeles and other parts in the country as the big four broadband networks are shrinking to be even a more smaller monopoly of controlled high-speed internet and on the other side of that are smaller isp's and smaller companies like monkey brains and sonic that have really been doing good work in the mission with homeless populations and now in the richmond district as well as another model of competition and more choices in different neighborhoods for broadband and high speed internet acce

speakers include brian roberts kara and fcc chairman wheeler. president obama is at georgetown university, discussing ideas about alleviating poverty in the united states. on c-span two own book tv, we are live at city hall in maryland for the book festival with prize-winning author david and former obama adviser david axelrod. sunday evening at 9:00, the president of the american constitution society on the impact of labor laws on women and their families. and on c-span3, saturday afternoon at 2:00, remembering the liberation of concentration camps within interview with gerda klein on liberation and the death march she barely survived. on sunday, the relationships that winston churchill developed with americans during his political career. get the complete schedule at c-span.org. >> investigators with the national transportation safety board interviewed the engineer who was operating the amtrak train. the briefing is about 30 minutes. >> hello, and good afternoon. i am a board member with the ntsb and i realize we are later than we said we woul

today, we would hear from the comcast ceo brian roberts at 10 a.m. eastern and fcc chair tom wheeler on c-span. this sunday night at 8:00 eastern on first ladies influence and image -- we will look into the personal lives of three first ladies -- rachel jackson, emily donaldson and angelica van buren. rachel jackson was called an adulterer during andrew jackson's presidential campaign and died of an apparent heart attack before he took office. his niece, emily donaldson, became the hostess but is later dismissed as fallout from a scandal and when would work martin van buren becomes president, his daughter-in-law angelica van buren is the white house hostess. rachel jackson, emily donaldson and angela event here in, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on first lady's, influence and image examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency from martha washington to michelle obama sundays at 8 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. as a complement to the series, c-span's new b

so i wanted to ask if miguel gamino or brian roberts wanted to have any comments or responses you don't have to but thank you for being here too and thank you for presenting to our office the connectivity plan as well i definitely see different parts of this within our plan. >> sure good afternoon miguel gamino thank you for the opportunity to comment on the plan, the research and also kind of i think it's an opportunity for me to help connect the dots for a bad pun between our ict plan the connectivity plan and how i believe it begins to help enable addressing the digital divide it

robert says, nope. brian says, not adequately. ray says, the government at large is another story.obby says, no, this administration hates the military. margaret is joining us from leavenworth, kansas, our line all others. good morning. caller: good morning. i am lucky here in the inx of fort leavenworth, and see a little bit more of the soldiers even though the fort has been kind of shut down for security. there is not the flow that there was between the city and the fort. if you listen to stories of veterans that have come back every story seems to have the same theme. when people come back and get out, they are at a loss. they do not feel the intensity that they felt as being part of an important group. that happens to a lot of people. whether you have been a nurse a long time, something where you work in intensity, and you are needed. that is the key. we need to need our people. all of our people. why are the veterans let out so early? why can't they be kept paid, and see what they need to fix up -- paid to fix our infrastructure if they are engineers, paid to be teachers. when

yes, and we wonder what is the next place for brian roberts to go to.joining me. : yes.et there was a very controversial op-ed in "the new york times," which was suggesting that instead of plowing money into refurbishing laguardia, close it down and diverted traffic to jfk, to newark. about you, but jfk does not have a lot of excess capacity. the pilots joke about it because it is so close to water that you feel like you are landing on top of an aircraft carrier when you go over jamaica bay. and it looks old. scarlet: it is old. it is not one of the greatest ways to see new york. it is not one of our greatest infrastructure projects, but if they shut it down, can you imagine jfk getting more crowded? george will be on a the next hour, and we will ask him why he thinks that new york can follow the lead of a place like hong kong, which just shut down the airport and opened a new one. looking forward to it. the: still ahead on bloomberg market day, the saudi arabia king says they will not i -- will not attend a summit paid what it means for relations betwe

then brian roberts at comcast, what you couldn't do in the united states, you may want to do globallythat is by liberty global. take your talent and help the rest of the world. we like content companies. >> it doesn't look like the regulatory environment is allowing for many mergers right now. >> it really is not. >> i disagree. i think at&t will close on directv quickly. i think there will be content mergers. clearly the notion of broadband and the fact that individuals at google have access to the decision makers is an interesting challenge. liz: it shows the market is opening up. david, do you have a favorite sector right now? >> we only own 20 stocks. it's all stock-specific. >> that is so good. top 20. that's what makes your firm so successful. >> thanks. i appreciate it. our favorite holding is qualcomm. hair all over it. valuation is cheap. ten, 11 times x cash. the business is underappreciated. and we tend to be very contrarian in the neighborhood of growth companies. liz: qualcomm is a winner when it comes to chips. david, my man. thank you so much. they're both holding on fo

brian lamb: you said that robert byrd was probably the greatest senator?irector witmore: yes, robert byrd was the cicero senator and he used ornate clauses and that is one of the things that he would use on the floor. brian lamb: we have a clip of him on the senate floor talking about him using shakespeare. senator byrd: then with a passion would i shake the world one drop of blood. , drawn from by country's bosom -- thy country's bosom. aye, it is written having such a jewel and these covering heavens fall like dew to inlay heaven with stars. as we leave for the evening give me my robe, put on my crown, i have immortal longings in me. brian lamb: what did you hear? director witmore: i heard a very theatrical senator. he picks passages that are so poetic and full of images, and he also moves around, you also notice he has his hand moving here, he is almost ready to move around, he almost sounds like an english professor. brian lamb: what would you say to somebody like me who is not an english -- a shakespeare expert, how would you explain it to me? directo

brian lamb: here is robert kennedy in 1964 eulogizing at the democratic national convention.is brother, jack kennedy, was obviously killed in 1963. [video clip] robert kennedy: when i think of president kennedy, i think of shakespeare and "romeo and juliet," he shall make -- and all the world shall be in night. and pay no worship to the gerrish son. -- garish sun. director witmore: that is a very powerful passage to describe the loss of a -- the sudden loss of a president. it takes that to death, which is a political event and in historical event and makes it a cosmic event. we get a lot of calls from people who know a lot about shakespeare and at election time, we get requests for things like a quote from "12 night," -- " 12th night," and we give quotes from them. brian lamb: stephen greenblatt was on and we had a composite of writers on our book notes program that talked about shakespeare. let's watch. [video clip] >> what i try to do with humor and serious columns is let the reader see politics almost like a shakespearean drama where you have running characters. >> there i

brian roberts. then u.s. mayors discuss the problem of youth violence, followed by a panel of inner-city young people offering their postseason. >> on the next journal journal sara westwood of the washington examiner and michael mcauliff of the washington post discuss benghazi and its investigation of the attack and the role of hillary clinton. then former ambassador marc ginsberg reviews u.s. policy. then we look at the future of trade legislation and how the house and senate plan to deal with it. plus your phone calls, facebook comments and tweets. "washington journal," live every morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. ♪ >> sunday night on c-span's "q & a" "q & a," chris hatfield produced many activities in his activities on the international space station and shares about life in spite. >> the only time i felt a shiver of fear going up my back was on the dark side of the earth looking at the one side of eastern australia in the darkness and watching a shooting star come in between me and the earth. at first i

after that a conversation with the comcast ceo brian roberts. >> the fourth annual national summit on preventing youth violence was held in washington, d.c. this week. the summit brought together officials from around the united states and several agencies to share information and strategies to reduce and prevent youth violence. before from tuesday featured mayors discussing programs in their cities -- the form from tuesday featured mayors discussing programs in their cities. it is just under

speakers include brian roberts.m armstrong and former sec chair michael powell who now is the head of the national cable and telecommunications association. these discussions were a part of the three-day internet and tv expo held earlier this month in chicago. >> you may be wondering what these chairs are doing here. we decided to do something different with the association this year, michael i know last year came out and put on a big old show. this year he thought maybe he would snap chat the whole thing or perhaps parascope, that would have been in bad taste. i know you all don't want another power point as exciting as those can be for everybody. what we decided to do was an actual interview with a real reporter, that would be me. and i also play one on television, on hbo. we're going to do an interview and later we're going to do a bunch of interviews. and throughout the show, peter kofka is going to be interviewing figures. i brought my own chairs. these are the red chairs of the code conference. before that it

brian roberts' leadership and his poignant statement that it is time to move on was not only a thoughtfulwas also directionally correct. it is time to look forwards, not backwards. the department of justice reached the conclusion that this proposed transaction would not be in the public interest. it is important to understand that the tipping point from cable to broadband came while this transaction was under review. we recognize the industry had changed, and we saw concrete evidence of the new competition and business models made possible by high-speed internet access. in other words, we recognize that broadband had to be at the center of our analysis, and that video was an application that flows over networks, and that could be supplied both by the owners of facilities and by competitors that use of broadband pathways to compete against the owners of those broadband pathways. this shift has implications far beyond this transaction for the industry at large. when i appeared before you in the second quarter of last year -- at the moment when this tipping point was actually happening made

after that a conversation with the comcast ceo brian roberts. >> the fourth annual national summit on preventing youth violence was held in washington, d.c. this week. the summit brought together officials from around the united states and several agencies to share information and strategies to reduce and prevent youth violence. before from tuesday featured mayors discussing programs in their cities -- the form from tuesday featured mayors discussing programs in their cities. it is just under an hour. [applause] >> thank you all the more for making them available to help us out with this. thank you so much, bob. all right, so as we transition now i'd like to ask our panelists to come up for what is entitled champions for justice leaders working to end youth violence. if you could join me now in welcoming our mayors from camden, minneapolis, oakland and salinas as they come up. [applause] >> so this is kind of exciting. for me. this is an opportunity now for us to have a conversation with leadership that really is tasked with leading the work. and so when we thought about this conversa

what consumers can expect for the future in innovation, speakers include comcast chairman and ceo brian robertschnology columnist and author karen switcher and tom wheeler this sunday morning at 10:30 president obama is at georgetown university discussing ideas on how to liberate poverty in the united states. on c-span2 saturday morning at 10:00 eastern on booktv live from city hall in gaithersburg, maryland for the gaithersburg book festival with pulitzer prize-winning author david schiller. former u.s. representative tom davis and martin frost and for obama adviser david axelrod and sunday evening at 9:00 on afterwards president of the american constitution society caroline fredericks and on the impact of labor and employment laws, working member and their families and on american history tv on c-span3 saturday afternoon at 2:00 eastern on oral histories remembering the liberation of nazi concentration camps with an interview of greta wiseman klein on her life in the jewish ghettos after the nazi invasion and the 1945 death march she barely survived lose sunday night at 6:30 on the presidency

brian roberts' leadership and his simple and poignant statement that it is time to move on was not only a thoughtful response

. >> why his making more money there than say, les month vez or brian roberts. >> when he signed thathey're primarily getting paid in stock and option awards. the idea is if company does well for investors they'll do well too. >> wow. a name on the list who may be the only name where nobody's going to go, gee, why does he get paid so much money, less moonves moonves. he makes $54 million. and i would guess most cbs investors are would say good on you ex les. >> right. media stocks have done twice as well as the rest of stocks in the s&p index over the last five years. there are a lot of investor whose would say you made a lot of money for us we're happy. >> bob iger making a lot of money for disney "avengers" movies, "starwars" movies loaded for bear. >> right. one name marissa mayer one come to crack the top ten. >> we hear she may not be able to last at yahoo! had all of these problems but one problem she does not have cashing $43 million of checks. >> it's a lot of stock. again, you know -- >> what has she done on the job that's been successful? >> well -- >> that is not fair. that

brian: you mentioned kevin roberts, the about -- is that the automation. tom: why would mr. not be interested in someone like him? brian: you have to choose to do it absolutely. i have no idea if amazon has interest. they are a marketing organization -- marketing sales organization. they are doing over a billion dollars a year in sales. tom: the chart tells me it is something every quarter. brian: you have a lot of naysayers on salesforce that focus on gap earnings, that is not necessarily useful. cash is much more important. brendan: cap adobe and microsoft debug -- keep up? brian: adobe, yes, they are the leader in the space. most of the analysts who look at it does not understand the end market at all. if you talk to a kevin roberts, anyone, martin sarao, they understand where this is going. even oracle. brendan: we are focusing on unicorns, it is an elephant. brian: they are much bigger. tom: did i get the unicorn memo? brendan: a unicorn is a company that get to $1 billion. tom: do you have a thought tom o'brien -- the you have a thought, brian? on uber? brian: i like th

tom: should they be touching up with brian roberts? the machinery of verizon with the high dividend, huge, predictable -- i will call it with respect old technology and there is a panic -- do something. what are they buying? brendan: i don't know. why verizon does is it sells access. i do not understand why they are getting in the business of buying content. we have proof this with the time warner-aol merger back when it was an infrastructure company it was not a good merger. content -- there are no inefficiencies if you own content as an infrastructure. tom: if you are joining us, the bombshell moments ago, verizon to buy america online aol. tobias levkovich is with us with citigroup. i guess it speaks, tobias where we are enable market. this would not have occurred in march of 2009. where are we in the bull market that allows the leadership of verizon to make a bold decision like this? tobias: i will answer in three different ways. one, what we were talking about before the funding cost -- if rates go higher, it will be better to fun

i go back to what does brian roberts do.: he participates in some of the swaps that will come out of this deal, whether it is new york, l.a., some other systems. as a consequence of this deal there will be more consolidation of content. brendan: chris has written a brief history of the cable industry. he calls it the broadcast age 45 cable h, 1975 to 2000. the internet age started in 2000. 2000 was when the cable industry was started to make its investment in high-speed internet access. when did the internet age actually start? is it when everybody gets rid of cable? chris: it started 15 years ago and we saw 100 million subscribers to the traditional package. it shows you how durable the model is. tom: craig moffett talks about cable finally being here. does that continue the? chris: no doubt about it it will continue. the industry has to adapt. these are dinosaurs mating, but dinosaurs have been around for a long time. brendan: i feel like cord cutting is not the right term for this. cord cutting implies you are severing th

what consumers can expect for the future in innovation speakers include comcast chairman and ceo brian roberts, technology columnist and author cara swisher and fcc chairman tom wheeler and sunday morning at 10:30, president obama is at georgetown university discussing ideas on how to alleviate poverty in the united states. on c-span2s saturday morning on book tv. we're live from the gaithersburg book festival. former u.s. representatives and former obama adviser david axelrod and sunday evening at 9:00 president of the american constitutions society, caroline frederickson on the impact of labor and employment laws on working women and their families and on american history tv on c-span3 sad afternoon -- saturday afternoon at 2 remembering the liberation of nazi concentration camps. and the 1945 death march she barely survived. and sunday night at 6:30 on the presidency, u.s. naval war college professor john mauer on the relationships winston churchill developed with american presidents during his political career. get our complete schedule at c-span2.org. >> 2016 presidential hopefuls are hit

brian lamb: let's go back to the way that we began with robert c. byrd, deceased senator from west virginia on the floor of the senate. [video clip] senator byrd: valentine, speaking to proteus. in "the two gentlemen of verona." speaking of his beloved sylvia when he said, i come as rich as having such a jewel as 20 seas. if all the sand were pearl, the water, nectar, and the rocks pure gold. valentine could just has well have been speaking of a good solid, well-rounded education. aye, as rich as having such a jewel as 20 seas. if all the sand were pearl, the water, nectar, and the rocks pure gold. brian lamb: how does someone do that? director witmore: well, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. i think that he was a natural. i think that he probably had a great memory for shakespeare but what he does there, he doesn't just quote shakespeare he performs it. and then he says why it matters. he says -- well, it is kind of a puffball of a play -- many people don't read it or see it, but he has read it,

brian roberts' leadership and his simple and poignant statement that it's time to move on was not only a thoughtful response but it was also directionally correct. it's time to look forward not backwards. this is not the time to dwell on the reasons why the federal communications commission, the department of justice reached the conclusion that this proposed transaction would not be in the public interest but it is important to understand that the tipping point from cable to broadband came while this transaction was under review. we recognized that the industry had changed and we saw concrete evidence of the new competition and business models made possible by high speed internet access. in other words, we recognized that broadband had to be at the center of our analysis and that video was in essence an application that flows over networks and that could be supplied, both by the owners of facilities and by competitors that use broadband pathways to compete against the owners of those broadband pathways. this shift has implications far beyond this transaction for the industry at large.

people can expect comcast ceo brian roberts technology columnist kara swisher and fcc chairman tom wheeler and sunday morning at 10:30 president obama is at georgetown university discussing ideas on how to i alleviate poverty in the united states. on c-span2 saturday morning beginning at 10:00 eastern on book tv we're live from city hall in guyaithersburg book festival. former obama adviser david ak el rod and sunday evening at 9:00 on afterword, caroline frederickson on the impact of labor and employment laws and working limits and their families and on c-span3 saturday afternoon on oral histories remembering the liberation of nazi concentration camps and her life in jewish get toes after the nazi invasion and the 1942 death march she barely survive and sunday at 6:30 john mauer on the roipgss winston churchill developed during his political career. get our complete schedule at c-span.org. >>> gop presidential hopeful senator marco rubio says the stakes are simply too high for this nation to elect hillary clinton as the negligent president. his comments came as he outlined his foreign pol

we'll kick things off with remarks from comcast chair and ceo brian roberts whose company just dropped plans to merge with time warner. see that saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. and later saturday afternoon it's comments from fcc chair tom wheeler. he talked about net neutrality among other issues and that's at 5:00 p.m. eastern. and then on sunday it's commerce secretary penny prits pritzker and her speech to the group. >>> the u.s. house is expected to begin work this week on 2016 defense programs and policies. this bill was put together after a lengthy markup session lasting well over a dozen hours. up next, it's a two-hour portion of that meeting several amendments were considered during this time, including ones dealing with the funding of the a-10 warthog aircraft and the possible transfer of prisoners from the guantanamo bay detention facility. >>> the gentlelady from arizona is recognized for the purpose of offering an amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have an amendment at the desk. >> if the staff would please distribute the amendment. >> without objection the

speakers include the comcast chairman and ceo brian roberts colonists and authors, and the fcc chairman wheeler. sunday morning at 10: 30, president obama is at georgetown university discussing ideas on how to alleviate poverty in the united states. one c-span2, beginning at 10:00 eastern on "tv," -- on book tv, we are live from gaithersburg at the city hall for the gaithersburg book festival. and sunday evening at 9:00 on afterwords caroline fredrickson on the impact of labor and employment laws on working women and their families. one american history tv on c-span3 saturday afternoon at 2:00 eastern oral histories, remembering the liberation of not see concentration camps with an interview on her life and the jewish ghettos after the nazi invasion in the 1945 death march. and sunday night, u.s. naval war college professor john mauer on the relationships with said churchill developed with american presidents. get our complete schedule at c-span.org. >> president obama met with arab leaders at camp david as part of the gulf cooperation council summit. following the meeting, the presiden

we'll kick things off with remarks from comcast chair and ceo brian roberts, whose company just dropped plans to merge with time warner. see that saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. later on saturday it's comments from fcc chair tom wheeler. he talked about net neutrality among other issues. then on sunday commerce secretary penny prits guerre and her speech to the group. 5:00 p.m. eastern, 2:00 pacific on sunday. also on c-span. >> remarkable partnerships. iconic women. their stories in "first ladies: the book." >> she did save the portrait of washington which was one of the things that endeared her to the entire nation. >> whoever could find out where frances was staying, what she was wearing, what she was doing what she looked like who she was seeing, that was going to help sell papers. >> she takes over a radio station and starts running it. i mean huh? how do you do that? and she did it. >> she exerted enormous influence because she would move a mountain to make sure that her husband was protected. >> "first ladies," now a book, published by public affairs, looking inside the

>> if i were brian roberts at comcast i would take my intellectual knowledge and understanding how toe a pause in the united states and maybe find clustering opportunities but i would want to go global. take your knowledge and talent. we are looking at who they would want to own outside of the united states. in the united states the obvious dynamics. you have time warner cable with 70 billion market cap. charter, comcast. these are enterprise values. clearly the notion of clustering, consolidation, scale and tax efficiency are driving. i would like to see -- me personally speaking for my church and ownership for my clients, cablevision has 3 million subscribers. let's figure out a way to cluster that spin it off and that's terrific for the shareholders of time warner cable and perhaps cluster l.a. and some other markets and then obviously i would watch the team figure out what to do with charter. >> i'll take that as an answer. >> part b was the other one and that is the classic fight with fios. and verizon with regards to bundling/unbundling. tomorrow night you have a great event in

but as brian roberts, you know who runs comcast, parent company of this network says he doesn't wantise you're a utility. the real value creation is having -- >> very innewative to think, i run a cable company and i want to control the content but now verizon used to be a telephone company. but it, too, is evolving. rethinking of what it is and where television distribution is going. right? >> to that point, then you think to yourself okay, if at&t is trying to buy directv. do they need to own exclusive content. with its ticket the nfl ticket the deal that it's got. butter but other things like that. is netflix more valuable as an independent or a pipe company? >> this is not a transformative deal like a directv and at&t. it almost seems like -- >> the landscape of content players around. who could fit in nicely. >> this is about having something to put on fios. that simple. >> we should tell you right now somebody who can could answer some of these questions better. >> he probably knew what the stock was when he took over too. >> we have a potential guest. first on cnbc and thrilled

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brian lamb: you said that robert byrd was probably the greatest senator to use the words of william shakespeare in the senate. director witmore: yes, robert byrd was the cicero senator, and he used ornate clauses and that is one of the distinctive things about him that worked on the floor. brian lamb: we have a clip of him on the senate floor talking about him using shakespeare. [video clip] senator byrd: oh that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth, then with a passion would i shake the world, one drop of blood, drawn from thy country's bosom. should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore. aye, it is written having such a jewel, and these covering heavens fall like dew to inlay heaven with stars. as we leave for the evening, give me my robe, put on my crown, i have immortal longings in me. brian lamb: what did you hear? director witmore: i heard a very theatrical senator. he picks passages that are so poetic and full of images, and he also moves around, you also notice he has his hand moving here, he is almost ready to move around, he almost sounds like an english professor. brian lamb

roberts visiting dave one last time. late show music director paul schaeffer sharing his memories will dave and musical brian adams will perform that's all happening right after "eyewitness news" at 11:35. >> live look now at the scene of the amtrak tragedy now 24 hours after it happened. this time last night, first responder has just arrived there there. they were pulling survivors from the wreckage of train number 188. philadelphia's port richmond neighborhood ground zero for a harrowing emergency operation. >>> a live look now from the ground the train of course on its way to new york city last night. today investigators revealed that it was simply traveling too fast. speeds topping 100 miles an hour when it entered a curve there on the rails. >>> tonight the i-team is digging deeper into this deadly derailment an piece of technology that investigators today said just may have prevented all of this. >> i teal reporter charlotte huffman continues our coverage amtrak tragedy. >> reporter: train 188's black box now in the hands of the ntsb. preliminary analysis of the black box show the train's engineer was going more than 100

brian moore. the 25-year-old will be laid to rest today in robert moses in long island outside of the funeral homeobert? >> heather and ainsley. good morning to you. later on this morning we are expecting to see a solemn procession from the funeral home to the church. it will take place two tenths of a mile away. this morning we are talking of course about officer brian mooar. his wake was jed and it was packed with a sea of police officers in blue from all over the country who came to show their support. also many dignitaries were showing their support. mayor deblasio andrew cuomo, timothy cardinal dolan. he and his partner were on routine patrol when they encountered demetrius blackwell. the two officers tried to stop him but he fired at moore and gravely wounded him. he fought for his life for two-days but did not survive. plenty of support here yesterday and we are expecting more of the same today. back to you. we appreciate it. >> the secret service now adding another level of sharp metal points on top of the white house fence. vehicle checkpoints are getting added protection. >> he ran the v

brian: you mentioned vietnam earlier. i want to run 20 years ago, a clip of robert mcnamara, the former secretary of defense, who is here to talk about his book. you have recently written about this. tell us what you think. [video clip] robert: we believed that it was a domino. if the soviets and the chinese controlled it, the rest of southeast asia would fall. and that the communist strength would be so increased that western europe would be in danger. that's a we thought. we were totally wrong. but that is what motivated us. it is very hard for people today to understand that. i think we both missed opportunities in a god-awful war. if i may take just two minutes i begin the book by saying that my earliest memory is a pharmacist day in 1918. it wasn't the war to end all wars. the human race have killed 160 million people this century. is apple we want to do in the next century? we're ending a millennia. my god! what is our view? what is our objective? brian: what is your take? mrs. graham was a good friend of his, did he ever serve on the board of the "post?" walter: yes. brian: it took him a long time to write that book

. >> host: robert in las vegas says it is hysterical brian williams is set up for what the press has a long time. >> guest: exaggeration? yes. the reason i am reluctant is i happen -- until the brian williams scandal, i had never heard of brian williams of the reason i am slightly you reluctant to weigh in is i don't quite understand brian williams means? was he a really respected go to news commentator with absolute sincerity or he was a showman? that is the reason i tend not to weigh in on the brian williams thing. i don't understand what the name brian williams has with it. >> host: marcus in portland ore.. >> caller: thanks for taking my calls. really enjoying the conversation. kind of amused at the beginning when you looked questioningly at peters that you could go on. >> guest: the dance contest of the interview. at the end of the interview i will start sobbing and peter will take me outside and kill me. what courses don't know. >> caller: more on the social media bit. i am a skimmer of your books and it seems to me that in the last decade course so that book by nicholas clara,