. >> all we know for sure is ross perot hasn't said anything, bush hasn't done anything and clinton hasn'tthing. >> despite a-list guests, execution in the early days is an issue. >> yes, i mean, it was bumpy. he had the absolutely unlovely task of following in johnny carson's footsteps. >> i bid you a very heartfelt good night. >> there's just no way that it was going to be oh, we just move smoothly to jay leno. >> big guns. i'll give you a refund on your ticket. >> i thought he was off his game a little. i thought hi wasn't as confident. one of the things is he was too far from the audience. it felt like he was separated completely from the people. >> i never liked that distance of standing there with the lights in your eyes and hearing laughs, but not seeing the faces. >> with "the tonight show" struggling, nbc toys with replacing leno with letterman. but in the end decides -- >> the host of "the tonight show" will continue to be mr. jay leno. >> what we're celebrating is, i haven't been fired. do you understand that? i already have the job. >> letterman bolts to cbs. >> as i leave nbc

. >> all we know for sure is that ross perot has not said anything, and be bush has not done anything, and clinton has not inhaled anything. >> and despite the a-list guests, execution in the early days was an issue. >> yes, it was bumpy, and he had the absolutely unlovely task of following johnny carson's footsteps. >> i bid you a very heartfelt good night. >> there was no way it would be, and oh, then we moved smoothly to jay leno. >> big gun. i will give you a refund on your ticket. >> i thought that he was off of the game a little. he was not as confident, and one thing, he was too far from the audience, and it felt like he was separated completely from the people. >> i never liked that distance of standing there with the lights in your eyes and hearing the laughs and not seeing the faces. >> and with the tonight show struggling creatively, nbc toys with replacing him with letterman, but in tend thhe end decide -- >> the host of the "tonight show" will be jay leno. >> okay. what we are celebrating is that i have not been fired. okay. i have not left. >> and that sets up head-to-he

. >> we know that ross perot has not said anything, and clinton has not inhaled anything. >> reportere early execution was an issue in the early days. >> yes, it was bumpy and the unlovely task of following in johnny carson's footsteps. >> i bid you a very heartfelt good night. >> and no way to say, oh, and then we moved smoothly to jay leno. >> big gun. i'll give you a refund on the ticket. >> i thought that he was off of the game a little, and he was not as con fi the dent. one thing is that he was too far from the audience. it felt like he was separated completely from the people. >> i never liked that distance of standing there with the lights in your eyes and hearing laughter and not seeing the faces. >> reporter: with the "tonight show" struggling, nbc toys with replacing leno with letterman, but in the end decides -- >> the host of the "tonight show" will continue to be jay leno. >> what we are celebrating is that i have not been fired, all right. i already have the job. >> reporter: letterman bolts to cbs. setting up head-to-head competition against jay. >> and it is going to

ross perot warned of a, quote, giant sucking sound that would send u.s. jobs south of the border. years after becoming law, politicians and pundits continue to speak out against it to rally their base. in 2008 then senator obama campaigned on promises to amend nafta if elected president. unions today feel as strongly as ever that the treaty was a bad deal for them. they claim 700,000 jobs have been lost as a result of nafta. the u.s. commerce department you counters saying 14 million jobs are supported by the free trade agreement. whatever the case u.s. trade with canada and mexico has more than doubled. up 111% since nafta came into force. thethe u.s. buy more exports whn iin theworld. chinall three want to join a new trans-pacific partnership a proposed trade zone so big it would link 12 countries along the pacific rim including china. opponents call it nafta on steroids and like nafta 20 years ago president obama could have just as hard a time getting a new far reaching trade treaty in congress. let's go to mike viqueira. he joins us from the white house. mike, listen, there ar

scott ross perot there at the berlin film festival thank you very much. in other news efforts to find a political solution to the conflict in syria have suffered another setback talks in geneva between the syrian government and opposition broke all saturday with no progress made another round of talks is expected but no date has been set. a ceasefire in the embattled city of homes rumsfeld today these people unable to escape with et nights. now that's the thing that going on. they were among the hundreds evacuated from the siege neighborhoods and homes at it this week the ceasefire that enable effective pots and without any tangible outcome of the un sponsored peace talks to syria. the geneva meeting for a coffee shop today. an un me dh and i got to see me didn't hide his disappointment in the way that is the utter joke. i apologize to the syrian people. their hopes. which weren't very many high that something would happen here we left. you want to delete a lot has been on tuesday homes. give them even more hope maybe these is the beginning itself the com

life out of prison for an overview of some of the action let's get down to our correspondent scott ross perot standing by at the red carpet. it's got to see it first off it looks like it was a fantastic year for german films four of them in the competition including jack which is just as good yes yes it's actually know the most the films of the german films screened at the bell island park for a couple of decades i can id is long before my time that this many top german films are screening trip competing for the golden bay or other first up is jacked up really really tough story about that too and neglected kids. and who tried on our own in many ways on the streets of berlin it's a social dramas have reflected thirty and dad and brothers theory grade the very heart of the actors are our two nd on professional kids practiced and i'm not really my favor as to say i've seen this sort of thing done better elsewhere. um it's a very decent and respectable effort but it's not really my choice the cold and much more looking forward to another german film it's to be coming up later this week he called

the go this time however unlikely which is a shame because it really is a great great movie star ross perot following the offerings at this his belly now. scott thanks alot. still the master short break and to better protect itself from online high heat. i will get the latest from the winter olympics day with vastly different. i want to have their say. all of the war democracy isn't something to be taken for granted. people have to fight for it. to participatory prices vary from region to. more about the subject. enjoy the discussion. i went to the multimedia democracy today. w dog. i went to the people. youth. i'll either. it is. today that in light of. he chased by revelations in the growing threat of identity theft is truly one worth noting safer internet to look more and more people conducting business on line using personal data to shop and bank of the internet. they unwittingly become targets of online fraud. so how do you protect yourself from having your own information stolen from having students install spyware on your hard drive one girl and start up has seen his business grow si

has had on businesses and jobs in america and in mexico now independent presidential candidate ross perot famously said in one thousand nine hundred two in a debate with george h.w. bush and bill clinton that nafta would quote create a giant sucking sound as jobs left the u.s. manufacturing world for mexico here's how he put it. in your factor south the border area dollar an hour for labor our young twenty five that's assume you've been in business for a long time you got about three or four pay a dollar an hour for your labor. i have no healthcare that's the most expensive single album i can have cars have no environmental controls no pollution controls and no retirement. if you don't care about anything but my good money there will be a general sucking sound going south so try and seconds on a couple of those one thousand nine hundred you know i'm very old ok twenty years later some economists talk of the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost and downward pressure on us wages at the same time other economists talk about lower prices that have resulted from competition and the canadian emba

really any any time recently where there was a successful we could say that successful third party ross perot elected clinton yes he threw the election to clint but didn't win himself it's possible that a similar thing can happen in two thousand and sixteen helping either candidate or denying anyone an electoral majority but he means that it's hard to pick up electoral votes i mean from your gut how do you explain her incredible i mean even her biggest critic would say this her resourcefulness an interesting question you know i think that she does see she is pretty resourceful she does take the opinions of lots of different people and i think that's actually like one of the best the best i think one of the things that her her aides point out that she does you know try to get lots of opinions she doesn't know which levers of power to fall off you know she and she is very familiar with the way washington works which is one criticism that president obama faces right now i think that should clinton a second clinton presidency happened i think that she wouldn't face for fame sort of criticism. tha

>> admiral stockdale was ross perot's running mate. he was a senior ranking officer in the camps and a commander in the navy. what did he do that showed leadership? >> in one period, he was the ranking officer. stockdale was running the show. >> where was the zoo? >> that was the old film studio on the south side of town. it was another camp where a couple hundred guys were for quite a long time. a lot of people were beaten and tortured. back to stockdale, they knew that he was a big fish, also. he was a senior naval officer and they tortured him a number of times, over and over. they wanted him to make propaganda and propaganda movies. he said the policy, like reisner, same policy. we are going to resist them and not collaborate with them. we are going to do our very best. when they wanted him to be in this movie, he cut a reverse mohawk in his stealth. they said that he was not getting out of this movie. they put a cap on him and left him in a room with a milking stool. he took the milking stool and beat his face black and blue, unti

ross perot tried it. didn't work out. >> thanks.ore of you on other shows on cnbc. >>> out to sunny l.a. with a magic with ty. >> it's sunny now, sue. back live in l.a. add l.a. live, the nokia theater where thousands of young ceos think of this is a davos for the under 50 set. really shts t really, the future of business is here at the young presidents organization. president bill clinton about to address the crowd, moments ago. last night i got a special chance to speak with magic johnson about his incredible road to business success. i started with a question about about honor from cnbc. he was surprised. >> you know, magic, i don't know whether you knew this but cnbc is putting together the 25 most influential business people of the past 25 years for our 25th anniversa anniversary. a list of 200. you were on it. >> oh, wow. >> we just cut to the final 100. you were on it. >> man. >> david stern got cut. what do you think? >> wow. >> is that a good call? >> well -- i love what david did for the nba. no question. he actually turne

mark zuckerberg or his parents or ross perot don't need the same rise in social security benefits thateople at the bottom do. >> i want to go around quickly. the last thing, the arizona law. the controversial law passed by the arizona legislate that would allow businesses to deny service because of religious beliefs. people think it is targeting gays. and there's one little twist here. the super bowl is scheduled to be played there -- >> next year, if governor brewer signs this into law, should the nfl take action? dowd dowd -- matthew dowd, very quickly. >> first, i think in the end the governor is going to veto this. it's an easy veto to do because of the things going in the business economy there. this is a problem where people use religion to enforce discriminatory practices. they used it in the 1960s. they used religion to defend slavery. we have used it to go to war. people criticize islam because they use religion to fight and kill people. this is the problem. i think she vetoes it, no way this can survive. >> i hope you're right. >> she knows how to talk quickly. she knows how

but in a c.n.n debate with vice president gore, billionaire businessman ross perot famously argued it would send thousands of jobs to lower-paying, less- regulated mexico. >> when you've got a 7:1 wage differential between the united states and mexico, you will hear the giant sucking sound. >> now, wait-- >> there's a political lesson, there's a business lesson. >> this has been a good deal for both canada and the united states. both have gained jobs, both have gained trade flows, both have become more competitive in the world marketplace as a result. >> and there is a tooth fairy and there is an easter bunny. >> brown: many years later, the debate over its effects goes on even as president obama pushes for new trade agreements-- one with the european union and another, the trans-pacific partnership, with asian nations. >> so what i've said to president pena nieto and-- and prime minister harper is, we'll get this passed, if it's a good agreement. >> brown: still, the proposed new agreements face opposition from both republicans and democrats, and it's unclear when or even if they mig

ross perot met that threshold in 1992. a disagreement over whether he should get an invite in 1996.no candidate has met that threshold cents. host: we have a caller from fort lauderdale tom of florida. congress men are begging for money. they're not doing the business of the country. i think it is time for the candidates debate until the tongs swell up on public tv, on c-span and networks. they would love to have them on msnbc or even fox. cracy.e a donor-o it is for the big donors. host: patrick, your take? guest: she has a point. she is right about the amount of spendhat congress people on fundraising. when you have a two-year term, you are in a perpetual campaign. you're always raising money for the next campaign. as the question of how obligated they are to their donors, that is a question that many people think -- take very seriously. said, the amount of money that one person can give to a campaign is relatively limited. , it was $2000. there are some campaigns, obamas is one, where the majority of were small. he had millions of contributors to his campaign. i think that to the

including the arrival of ross perot's candidacy in the campaign. it brought bill clinton and hillary clinton to the white house. after they arrived, there was the announcement about health care. we have a couple of clips to show you that help demonstrate the intention of the first lady's involvement in health care. let's watch. [video clip] >> i'm glad hillary has agreed to chair this task force and she will be sharing some of the heat i expect to generate. in the coming months, the american people will learn that we have a first lady of many talents, but most of all who can bring people together around on complex issues to hammer out consensus and get things done. >> as the president said, and as he believes, this is not a partisan issue. it is not an ideological battle. it is a problem to be solved that affects all of us. and i'm looking forward over the next weeks and months to not only working with you, but to watching you craft the most important social policy that our nation will have confronted in many decades. >> a lot of people thought i s