now early today we got a chance to speak with josh silverman, the president and ceo of etsy. take a look. josh, very exciting. one year anniversary mother's day coming up how big can you be >> we think the market for special is huge. in a world where people are buying the same massed produced goods, they do a great job of delivering a commodity of life the more when they want something to feel special, they want to go to some place different. and etsy stands for special. >> when i look for your company, a lot of people count you out. when you own special, that is a different mode, right? >> we think so we have got 1.9 million sellers who make with care beautiful hand crafted items and selling to over 30 million buyers the only ecosystem out there that has an amazing selection. 50 million items made by hand. >> i love the demographic of your sellers, 88% women. and 97% work from home that is an empowerment story. >> we think it is an important story. as the nature of work changes, its automation changes in the nature of work, creativity can't be automated the opportunity to ta

power the outcome could have impact on the media industry we're joined by former co-chairman ben silvermaneo and chairman of propulgate we talked a few moments ago about how unprecedented this battle is in nature. it's crazy. >> it's crazy. and also for the creative community it's really crazy, too. and this week was the upfronts in new york where all the broadcasts unveiled their shows. during the fox upfront it was all about the macro moves and mergers and acquisitions and literally during the upfront news broke on the court decision. >> i'm glad you brought that up. there's all this uncertainty around cbs and viacom, all this going on with fox, disney, comcast, our parent company and also skye. i imagine that all of this and sort of the uncertainty around all of this potential con solidation, what that means for content creators is that it will make companies like netflix, amazon and these companies look that much more attractive. >> in general the creative community is happy because there's so much opportunity to make shows, but then as somebody who has to navigate the creative side an

service in this city to work with some of sfpd's finest, captain dylan, commander manox, captain silvermann yep, officer matt loray and so many more. these individuals have truly helped shape my view of how incredible our police department is and how much talent we have here. i just want to thank all of you for stepping up and doing your part. i've also been a prosecutors and i've worked with so many police officers that have always shaped my view that police officers are good and we need them and i can't thank you enough for your service. i want to thank the mayor, chief scott and the command staff for their hard work and thoughtful analysis on the invests that we as a city need to make in the department. i just want to tell one quick story in my direct. so many times we hear the negatives. the other day someone said i have to tell you what happened to me with a police officer. i got a pounding on my door at 7:00 in the morning and i went out there and i saw a police car and i was so nervous. they open it had door and the police officer said -- opened the door and the police officer said,

to jane smiley to salma rachid, you know, people that i admired a lot who- - doug brinkley, sarah silverman. - who have taken a real fancy to it, and i think, i'm very proud of it. - well, it has the word sean penn on it also, and nobody who reads this book does not know that it's your book. and i wonder to what degree the reaction to the book is less a reaction to the book than to you. - i think that there's a syndrome called attribution, where, for example, the politics will be attributed to. there's a gray area and there are people predisposed to not be thrilled with the idea of me writing a novel and so some of that is there are other people, for example, i've only read one or two of them because i could get the sense of how some of the toxicity of the feeling about it by some people. but i'd read the new york times, and it was really interesting to read because it was certainly it was a negative interview, but it was very unbiased, where i could very clearly tell that this wasn't somebody who had a bone to pick with an actor but with a novelist. - this is not about el chapo - this is n

it shows kate mckinnon, sarah silverman with a few extra parts. can you find them? is clearly elongated. >> whose arm is that? is that supposed to be -- this is a really long arm. >> someone else is coming up here. >> oh, and frank is like trying to jump up. what do you think? which one do you think? >> does frank want to survey these? let's see if frank can pick them out. >> but clearly, wow, this is really elongated. >> none of their ears are elongated. >> i know. >>> all right, exciting news. >> backstreet's back! the backstreet boys are out with their first new single in five years. take a listen to "don't go breakin' my heart." ♪ baby, don't go breakin' my heart ♪ ♪ breakin' my heart ♪ it's the only one i've got ♪ it's the only one that i've got ♪ ♪ >> i have to confess. i love it. >> really? >> and not only do i love this song, i love that they went old school with the backstreet boys moves. >> that's the only moves they know. >> it's classic bsb. >> it's lyrical genius. don't go breaking my heart, it's only one that i have. ♪ breakin' my heart >> guys, what d

[ cheers and applause ] issa rae, sarah silverman, our friend kate mckinnon. >> yeah, pretty cool to- it's a very funny cover, because there's like, extra limbs where there shouldn't be. [ light laughter ] >> yeah, because remember when that happened? >> seth: yeah, there -- yeah. >> so they kind of -- we did that, but they -- these two actually were in a different room when we shot this, so it was stranger number one and stranger number two. and they were, like, okay, now put your leg on her head. >> seth: oh, funny. >> and now stick your legs through her leg and then put your hands up on to her thing. [ light laughter ] >> seth: oh, wow. >> so i got pretty close. >> seth: and that's great. >> with strangers one and two. >> seth: you -- >> hey guys. [ light laughter ] >> seth: you got to take a photo -- there's a photo shoot inside where you have -- took a picture with an iguana. a live iguana. >> oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> seth: and you had -- is it true that you had a pet iguana growing up. >> no, i'm no stranger to iguanas. [ laughter ] i had one from the years 15 to 16. >> seth: t

my name is tina silverman, i teach in the bronx.eachers feel their collective bargaining rights are being deprived. there are teachers that have gone for years without a pay raise. they are facing budgetary cuts. they are watching their schools be defunded left and right. my name is mohammed. i am a director in this project. i have been a vendor for nine years. most street vendors are immigrants, all of them are hard workers. we have a lot of problems, struggles with the system, government, with the police in a with enforcement. many aspects. trump does not see how important immigrants are to our country, city, how much they benefit the entire community and society. >> my name is marked. as a working woman, woman of color, as a puerto rican living in new york, i think it's important to show that we are not here to just abide by the rules of the rich. we also demand for our rights to be respected and we demand to go above and beyond those rights, that they are willing to give up on, and show this much respect for our lives, our quali

how much of that plays into creative decisions right now we talked to ben silverman last week about how these cbs/viacom is interfering with the pitch process, for example is that happening? >> i guess it is happening, but it's happening more in network i mean hbo is sort of a niche operation. it's sort of its own world kind of like you guys really, even though you do something different, so we're not really being buffeted by those forces western kind of protected. if you're a huge broadcast network, broadcast, news stuff, 24 hours a day, i think you're subject to more market pressures. hbo is still a subscription service so it has a different place in the marketplace. >> although not spending nearly as much as netflix does on content each year. >> absolutely. >> and seemingly, i mean people are paying $14.99 a month for it, they want their value. >> they do i think our point about hbo is, look, we don't dump everything out there and a lot of netflix stuff is great, but not all of it, not all our stuff is great either bucket we curate and try to find high quality stuff and we hope "succ

a spokesman for the company now telling reporter ed silverman at stat news.com which is a health care reporting outfit, a spokesman for the company telling stat news, quote, this episode was clearly a mistake. novartis also admitting in this final statement, and who knows if it's a final statement. maybe there will be yet more revisions. novartis ultimately admitting that not only did they get questioned as a corporation about this deal with michael cohen, but their previous ceo, who quit unexpectedly last fall, and he is being blamed now for having set up this deal with michael cohen, the company is now admitting this they're previous ceo, he also was personally interviewed by the lawyers from mueller's office. novartis has had its own problems with corruption. two years ago they paid $25 million to settle an investigation that they bribed people in china to help their business. the year before that novartis agreed to pay almost $400 million for -- to settle what was essentially a bribery scam, a kickback scam to boost their drug sales in the united states. just last month reuters re

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brad jacobs, xpo and then josh silverman, brooklyn's own etsy for mother's day mother's day is comingp. go there and buy some stuff you can't get on amazon. >> jim, good hour. >> nvidia. >> we'll see you tonight, 6:00 p.m. "mad money." >>> reaction to walmart's biggest deal ever. dow high was an initial 107. now at 47. ♪ >>> good wednesday morning welcome back to "squawk on the street." at post 9 of the new york stock exchange dow initially up triple digits but settles back here up 15 as we watch the decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal, the ten-year, walmart/disney and a lot more. our road map begins with walmart in its biggest deal. agreeing to buy a share of india's flip car >>> plus, bob iger talking about what's booftsing his company's bottom line. and closing a deal with fox and losing a possible bidding war with comcast >>> reactions from around the world. president trump pulling the u.s. out of the iran deal what it means. >>> first, it's official walmart buying majority stake in india's flip cart for $16 billion. the biggest deal for walmart ever courtney reagan jo

we have jack black, sarah silverman, chelsea handler, sean hayes, kelly clarkson, all on the couches. care about this. they care about helping red nose day getting children out of poverty. they raise millions of dollars. it really, really helps kids. >> that was my next question. for people that don't know, because red nose day is still kind of catching on. >> we're in our fourth year, yeah. nbc has partnered with the -- we're the american partner. it originated in the uk. they're wonderful people. nbc, in its infinite wisdom, said, we're going to partner with you and do this in the united states. we raise a lot of money. >> there's a big stage out on our plaza actually because there is this special tonight on nbc. you're staying up late, my dear. >> we're in bed by like 7:00. i don't have a job where i have to wake up at 4:00. >> coffee. >> yeah. >> we have a live hour hosted by chris hardwick tonight. a bunch of us are going to be there. there's a special edition of "hollywood game night" tonight. do you know what time? i think 8:00 or 9:00. i should know that. one job, to know when