my guest tonight is in the new wes anderson movie, so at some point in this interview, jason schwartzmanl probably show up. please welcome jeff goldblum. ( cheers and applause ) hey, jeff. good to see you again. nice to have you on. >> nice to be here. >> stephen: to see you again, man. obviously everybody knows you're a friend of the show. it's your sixth time on the show. ( cheers and applause ). first time we got to have a conversation together. >> i'm thrilled, very honored. >> stephen: now, i've never said this to you, i've never said this to you, but you know i don't trust the hollywood elite. >> yes, sir... >> stephen: but you're different. >> really? thank you. >> stephen: because the market has spoken and are you box office gold, okay? ( cheers and applause ) i believe in the free market. you've been in some of the biggest movies of all times. do you fit in out in hollywood with all the-- are you a liber liberal? ( laughter ) >> i wasn't going to press the issue, but now that you've brought it up, yes, i would say that i'm-- if i had to put my cards on the table-- i'm on the sid

schwartzman is a professor of law at university of virginia. research focuses on issues of law and religion. prior to join the faculty at courtia, he clerked for a of the united states of appeal for the fourth circuit. schwartzman went to virginia for his undergraduate and law degree and received a rhodes scholar. before i ask the first question, or would you please make sure that all of your cell phones and other noisemaking devices are turned down so we do not disturb the flow of the conversation and others' attention? question, i think was perfectly teed up by judge starr. what is the substantial burden that is claimed? how do we codify that illegally? >> i will take it, michael. thank you for having me on this great panel. ,ou know, as michael indicated i had the privilege of representing green family. i see them here today and i thank them for coming. you said this case is very complicated and it is in many ways. it brings a number of different issues none the least of the whole issue of corporate exercise of religion. however, on the othe

doesn't matter what side of the political perspective you have, you're on, i have a story about steve schwartzmann new york, a billionaire who went there in 2009 on obama's tax policy, preposterous, it's okay to use, some nazi analogies when there's real genocide like in rwanda or cambodia under pol pot, these analogies need to be reserved only for agagenocide, otherwise you cheapen the memory of all of those slaughtered. hillary clinton made a big mistake going there. it's also ridiculous apples and oranges comparison in just -- geopolitics. >> anyway, nazi references are not limited to one party as much there. jonathan, let's watch. >> you go to the 1940s. nazi germany. look, we saw in britain, neville chamberlain, who told the british people, accept the nazis, yes, they'll dominate the continent of europe, but that's not our problem. let's appease them, why? it can't be done. we can't possibly stand against them. >> think about nazi germany. most of those people did not believe in what hitler was doing. did they speak up? did they stand up for what they believed? they did not. and you saw what

russell and mark wahlberg and jason schwartzman, all the people who were in "i heart huckabees." to my prank call cd. >> those prank calls landed hill his first film. and led to small parts in hit comedies. like "knocked up." >> look, man, i didn't go to yale so i could work 12 hours a day. >> i thought you went to santa monica city college? >> i went where i went, jason. >> and "forgetting sarah marshall." >> i would love to sell you some weed. i'm at my [ bleep ] job right now. obviously you called me at work. you know i'm at my place of work. >> then in "super bad." being funny made jonah hill famous. >> i don't want to sit here all by myself cooking this [ bleep ] food. no offense. and i just think that i don't ever need to cook tiramisu. am i going to be a chef? no. there's three weeks left in school. give me a [ bleep ] break. sorry for cursing. >> i started not having to audition for films. i got script after script. it was a really lucky amazing time. i would call it the christmas present thing where it's like if you get a christmas present and you open the box and it's t

murray abraham and jason schwartzman, and the rest of the cast will actually come and go throughout theis little kind of chocolate box town on the borders of germany and poland. and it was beautiful, lots of fun. everyone -- we all had dinner together, and wes is there in his suit and his slippers. it's a very, very pleasant experience. >> jimmy: he wore slippers? >> yes, very pleasant experience. >> jimmy: interesting. he wears slippers. i like that. i like knowing that. a little trivia about wes anderson. and then -- so you do that type of film. and then you do "dom hemingway," which is so different. >> yeah, "dom" was this crazy experience. you know, i read this script a a couple of years back and before i knew it, we in and we were doing, it. it was the most shocking -- i think nowadays, you know, it's hard to read -- it's hard to get shocked nowadays. you know, we watch so much kind of crazy stuff online and the on the tv. the world is a crazy place. >> jimmy: yeah. >> i read this script, and i was shocked at this guy. i mean, he's rude. he's abrasive. he's completely politically i

schwartzman is no fan of her husband, a couple of years ago went over the tax policies, likening themnvasion of poland, a bit of an overstatement. >> interesting that she would come out and support. it was one sentence and a six page beats, so it was not anything other than simply remarking on something that been prettyld have conspicuous by its absence. china?reception in >> it has been largely good. paying attention to the press has been very positive. the folks that have met with her are excited to have a fighter warm, intelligent, and interested in what they're doing. these sort of trips, at the putins of up to what would some good cheer in the relationship that has had its shares of ups and downs. >> we can use the good cheer for sure in these days but given everything else that is going on in russia and ukraine. thank you for joining us. sure. >> how social media beats the street, a new study has some surprising conclusions about additional analysis. success about for media. ♪ >> welcome back. when it comes to stock market may beions, social media superior to wall street analyst

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i don't think it's a mistake where steve schwartzman talked about pulling back from housing when yousing a lot of indicators. today facts are friendly and on be successful you got to have your antenna up and listening to a variety of different venues coming in to make those decisions both geopolitical and financial, et cetera. >> a lot of people out there watch the show that are small business owners and maybe wannabe entrepreneurs. you've made it. you've made the upper echelon of corporate america. give some advice. how do you do it? >> certainly lori ann in her book "opportunity knocks" the pyramid of factors that are very important. i liked her comment the other day about world dominance i'm not sure that's a legal term to be able to use. we tend to stay away from that. >> tongue in cheek. >> i think it's perseverance and i think it's integrity, listen, learn, before you leap. >> what do you think drives it? >> i think you have to have a passion. you know, you have to be completely dedicated and absorbed in what you're doing. you have to take all facets of the business when i was

talked about the payout for people like leon black, $560 million with his income, 465 for steven schwartzman and others. i do know it's been put back in some of the bills, but this has been a policy debate we've been talking about for about five years now. >> there's a lot of momentum behind this issue. i would not expect it to pass this year. one of the things that adds to its momentum in terms of the long-term, which we really get to a tax reform discussion which is not going to be this year, is that dave camp, the republican chairman of the ways and means committee, included this interest in his tax reform bill. the administration will have it in its budget in part to pay for an expansion of the earned next tax credit, part of the president's inequality agenda, something to reward low wage workers for expanded work effort and expand that program to some young childless men. but i don't think they can get over the finish line. i don't think any tax increases are going to get over the finish line this year. but that is the tax break that many on wall street themselves think is unjustified.