has written that you think ought to be changed, how do you say that to aaron sorkin? >> very quietly, and usually through someone else. [laughter] a lot of layers in between so it cannot be traced back. tavis: right. >> here is the deal, and this comes from having done theater. it speaks also to the cast. they were very smart to cast theater people who could handle that dialogue and know that when the writing comes in, that's what to do. that's what you learn, every word. it is not restrictive, it's very liberating in a way because i don't have to paraphrase or come up with some kind of better joke here like you would if you are on a movie where it's kind of been written by a lot of people, some of whom who are not even writers. aaron will tell you, and rightfully so, if you know your words, you'll be much happier with your performance. so go learn the words. and there is a rhythm to it. like all the great writers all the way back to shakespeare. once you get aaron going and up to pace, it's almost like music for an actor. you can feel the rhythm of it. i find it a hu

from sorkin to borkin, is myth a murderer? that is not not. it is a super pack called usa priority the web video show he is responsible for the death a steelworker's wife. watch. >> when mitt romney lost my plant i lost my health care and my family lost their health care. a short time after that my wife became ill. i don't know how long she was sick. maybe she didn't say anything because she knew we couldn't afford the insurance. then one day she became ill. i took her to the jackson county hospital, and admitted her pneumonia and they found the cancer. by then it was stage four. there was nothing they could do for her. she passed away in 22 days. i do not think mitt romney realizes what he has done to anyone. i furthermore do not think mitt romney is concerned. >> i'll take your word for that. according to priorities, the ad is a fifth in an an on-line project to educate voters about mitt romney's business record and their impact on the middle class family. it is a project. >> just to let you know, michael just said that he fast-forwards thro

does he wish he had sorkin's brain?ecticut is north of here but i heard a large sucking sound. not only did he suck up to sorkin, he sucked up to abe hathoway. the 1%. >> eric: i like it. i like it, too. >> greg: how can you -- >> eric: i know. i like to see the liberal brain at work. fun to watch. >> greg: i watch the first episode of 40 minutes of it and i threw up. mote foricly anyway. >> andrea: how could it be fun to watch? i have intestinal crisis when i watch it. >> eric: take it with a grain like you watch -- >> andrea: a grain? triple helping! >> greg: isn't this true he lives in a make-believe world? >> eric: what is wrong, bob? >> bob: nothing. you keep coming back to fundraisers with the hollywood people. mitt romney had twice as many fundraisers in july as barack obama did. we don't talk about that for some reason. he had one in israel with diamond merchants, we don't know the names of them. koch brothers the right wingers of right wingers. i'm not supposed to say that. then he was in london and raised mill

i'm channelling the sorkin look. >> the sorkin blue? >> i want to be invited in "gq," too. yesterday i saw that was a sensitive subject so i'm bringing it up again. what is that going to happen? >> one day into the future? i'm not wearing the monk strap shoes -- >> is the day in the future set? >> no, no, no, no. >> how do we even know -- >> we don't. that's why i was trying to say to you that we should not -- >> you said you were going to be. obviously, there's some negotiations going on there with "gq." cover or is that aaron sorkin. >> i was told i could only get cover if we did the photo shoot together. >> you're lying. let's check on markets this morning. futures after what we saw yesterday, another pretty solid session as we slowly creep above 1400 on the s&p. >> wow. >> yeah. and 13168 on the dow. we are indicated down about 0.5%. >> we need like the kernen indicator and just have 15,000 at the top -- >> you do. you left a lot when you were throwing my 30% prediction in my face when the market pulled back at one point. once again, when you were excited about the -- w

i am pleased to have andrew ross sorkin back at this table. welcome. >> it is great to see you, charlie. >> rose: you are writing another big book? >> not yes yet but stay tuned. >> i am looking for an idea? >> i am always looking for an idea. it is hard -- it is hard to find a crisis as big as the last one we lived through. >> rose: indeed, and european debt crisis doesn't offer that to you or not? >> it could. we haven't -- you need a narrative that has a real climax, and unfortunately. >> rose: you don't know where the climax -- >> i am not sure we know when and where the climax will be. >> rose: well that ties me up to do your footwork. >> yes, absolutely. >> rose: so in the meantime you focused a bit on silicon centrally and the tech community. tell me about the alabama mindset, about having so much cash. >> which was the way microsoft was for many years and which is the way a lot of corporations in america -- >> and right now, by the way, corporations in america find thethemselves with $2 trillion n the balance sheet and all trying to fi

aaron ross sorkin. >> we're not related.e grew up in the same town. >> you don't go a tanning machine quite as frequently as aaron ross sorkin does. >> no comments on that. >> i'm not sure. >> that could be natural. >> possibly. >> nice guy by the way and a brilliant writer. >> definitely. knight capital group struck a rescue deal as you know to avoid a collapse with banks and regulators still struggling with risk management of speedy an complex bets. joining us now is a professor from columbia university at the school of international public affairs. specializing in financial regulation and economic reform. and you have some pretty opinionated viewpoints here, professor and that's that at this point there aren't enough speed limits and oversight of the algorithmic trading. >> right now there aren't enough to make sure that when glitches like this happen you can pull the plug. you can get over to the safety lane. you can do the things that are necessary to make sure that the markets continue to function when these types of e

i'm joe kernen along with andrew ross sorkin. is off today. >>> making headlines, sales of video game hardware, software and accessories falling for the eighth straight month. analysts say the industry is looking towards the release of new equipment to cure the sector's woes. private equity firms tpg capital and others are in the running to buy nike's leather handbag and shoemaker coal hann. the businesses seem to be worth $500 million and the auction is in the second round with several parties involved. and we're watching shares of retailer jcpenney and hoping and praying things will be okay. the company just reported -- >> we're going to be praying? >> we're just going to be hoping they make it. we're going to be hoping that in the future that they're able to turn the ship around. >> that would be great if they could, and to revolutionize retail, but if they do it right, fine, if they don't get them going -- >> they'll go, that's okay. one or the other. >> either run a factory, learn how to do it. >> you should want people to s

her latest is the new aaron sorkin project called "the newsroom." it airs sunday nights on hbo.pplause ] ♪ >> jimmy: how are you? you look fantastic, i like that dress. >> thank you, it's actually a shirt that i cut off before i came here. then we had to tape it inside because i cut it too short. >> jimmy: you ruined the magic. i like what you put together for yourself. where were you born, by the way? >> i was born in oklahoma then raised in japan because my mother married a guy in the military. my mother is chinese blood but came here the day the war ended. >> jimmy: that's very confusing. so what language was spoken in your house? >> my mom speaks vietnamese and chinese and english. i speak japanese and english. my mom always spoke english with us. it's funny because when she learned english, she learned a little bit in vietnam. but mostly when she came to america. when you learn another language, it's so hard because of the expressions is idioms that make it really difficult. >> jimmy: si. [ laughter ] >> my mom would get the american expressions. she'd be close but a little

i searched sorkin and only aaron sorkin came up.on. >> it's huge. it's bigger than that. >> and everybody needs these pictures. and you can look at the bottom, courtesy of getty images. >> target 11 cents above expected revenues. and staples is reporting quarterly profit of 18 cents a share. that was below estimates by 4 cents. the company blames north america and europe. just weakness in both key areas. >> let's talk europe this morning. eu officials have committed to do "whatever it takes" to stabilize the eurozone. growth is likely to be crimped by austerity measures. let's go to new york where gillian tett is. it has looked like the eurozone is contracting but this doesn't seem to be top of mind right now. for the past couple weeks we've been floating along. nobody seems to be talk about it. i don't know if that's what mario draghi's comments two weeks ago reflect. what do you think is about to happen. >> the good news is we have moved away from heart attack mode. >> why is that? >> it's partly because draghi came out -- >> he d

sorkin's life or imagination than to mr.s, like the girl who dumps him with whom he reconnected at the end? and she says that the zuckerberg to whom i refer is not mark zuckerberg, the proud son of dobbs ferry, new york. the one under discussion is with ton created by fincher and sorkin, not the real-live boy billionaire, and that's from a daily beast article. it's a little confusing, i know. >> guest: right. >> host: but then danya says she lives in eugene, oregon, and new york city and a graduate of amherst school of education. >> guest: it's a great question. the reality is, you know, i don't want to get into mark's personal life that much. but the reality is when "the social network" and my book, "accidental billionaires" takes place, although he did know the girl he ended up being with, for the first six months they were just friends. they didn't start dating seriously until after the events of "the social network," and even then people say they were not that serious according to people i talk to, but they didn't become

dating aaron sorkin, creator of newsroom, which you love. they have split.ppear heartbroken. a big smile for cameras outside the theater. she is appearing in the revival of gore vidal "the best man" they began dating back in may. a source told "in touch magazine" they're very different. she is focused on raising her daughter. he is working on his show. and they'll remain friend. the show is "the newsroom" the show you and i have taken to. >> west wing was great. the newsroom. aaron sorkin, a master of his craft. >> didn't know they were dating. >> now you know. dating and broke up all right now. >> i always thought kristin was the hottest of the "sex in the city." >> beautiful. >>en know sen einnocence. something about the little lamb. had the character down. >> you are the black sheep, take you down the wrong path. >> why am i the black sheep? >> the little lamb. >> apparently from one relationship to another, david beckham. twitter rumor firestorm, that he was messing around with katherine jenkins, the welsh singer from season 14, "dancing with the stars."

andrew ross sorkin. always a pleasure to have you on this program. thank you for your time.ery morning on cnbc's squawk box" and read excellent writings in "the new york times." >>> next, "time's" michael scherer takes us through democracy 2.0 and shows us the future of campaigning. if there was a pill to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin totally dedicated to your eyes, from the eye-care experts at bausch + lomb. as you age, eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. [ male announcer ] ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. now, that's a pill worth taking. [ male announcer ] ocuvite. help protect your eye health. >>> mobile technology is like the 49s gold rush of campaigni, with treasure-troves of votes for the taking. when it comes to online campaigning a pew research study shows the obama campaign is far ahead of team romney. the president has 21 times as many followers as governor romney on twitt

sorkin, good morning. >> good morning.committing some m&a reports over there. >> i know, it was, you know, not wanted but i felt like i had to do it even though i was at the beach. it was interesting of course. they were in their last moments as you well know, knight, in terms of trying to raise the money to be able to open today, if they had not been able to raise that $400 million, the firm would have been at bankruptcy, unable and many had thought they might be able to sell themselves over the weekend but it appears any oeshl suitors simply did not have enough time in this day and age to feel comfortable buying the company, and so this lifeline was the only real answer they had. >> in terms of who is going to own this company ultimately, who is going to have a majority stake in this thing? >> you know the $4 m00 million they confirmed in an 8k, $1.50 conversion price split essentially between four firms with some getting larger portions than others. we've had various reporting on this and i wasn't 100% so it didn't go w

every word of aaron sorkin is brilliant. is it real? no, it's a tv show. said that our debates should be debates. i don't think our debates are debates any more. like they say on the show, we're going to throw out of the script. they should throw out the rules and have a damn debate. >> they said they were going to have douglas-style debates. oh. >> at least a real debate. >> michael: this is more about the debates. >> my question was name three freedoms you had the day before the president was sworn in that you don't have now. mr. president you said if elected you said that the price of gallon would be lowered about. how do you control the cost of oil. name an instance where the president apologized for america and name an instance where no president should apologize for america. >> michael: why respect they asking him how he controls the surprise of oil or the gallon of gasoline. >> the word about these guys is getting mad at them. as dorothy has changed so much people who are watching know who the by sides are and many will change their mind on the bias

i'm joe kernen along with andrew ross sorkin. becky is off this week.lay's head of u.s. portfolio strategy. foreclosure process increased 6% by last july, that reflects banks getting caught up with the whole process, after foreclosures were stalled last year because of those robo signings and all the hoopla surrounding that. nationwide settlement was struck back in february. >>> citigroup's mortgage unit is testing a program to allow people to rent their homes back and not foreclose on them. bank of america already has a similar program. citi will offer 500 borrows the chance to hand over their deeds to the bank and in exchange the company will offer leases so that the homeowners can then rent their houses back. in our global headlines, china's annual consumer inflation fell to a 30-month low last month, consumer prices rising on 1 .8, well below last year's higher levels. economists say the new statistics give the chinese government more room for additional stimulus. u.s. equity futures at this hour have been trading down, now they're down actually 21

ross sorkin wrote about it in today's "new york times." andrew, you suggest i agree 100%, it is not merely the machines and trading gtches and nightc capitals of the worl that has anything to do with thin, it has a lot more to do with results. >> i worry we conflated over the past couple of years all these computer algo issues related to the flash crash, the facebook ipo that wept wront wrong in te the technical glitch, not what happened to the price. and finally this capital issue. that's not the problem. the problem $170 billion has left the mutual fund market because people don't think they're making money anymore because if you invested 10 years ago in 2000, more than 10 years ago now in 2000, you don't have any more money to show for it. it's been a -- it's felt like a lousy market. that's not to suggest that people shouldn't be in the market. right about now it feels like you probably should because everybody isn't. i feel there's a large residual and some people feeling the markets are rigged against them which is different than the

aaron sorkin, a master of his craft. >> didn't know they were dating. >> now you know. i always thought kristin was the hottest of the "sex in the city." >> beautiful. >> innocence. >> some being the little lamb. had the character down. >> you are the black sheep, take her down the wrong path? >> why am i the black sheep? >> the little lamb. >> apparently from one relationship to another, david beckham having to fend off cheating rumors. now, there was a twitter rumor firestorm that he was messing around. katherine jenkins, the welsh singer from season 14, "dancing with the stars." she took to twitter. i want you to know i deny i have had an affair with david beckham. the rumors are hurtful, untrue, and my lawyers tell me actionable. she met david twice. and his reps are denying it as well. >>> okay, so this new navy s.e.a.l. book that's supposed to hit the shelves on 9/11, "no easy day," which is going to account the raid of osama bin laden. this author has met with famed director steven spielberg and two movie makers interested in making it a movie. >> that could be a

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.this is morning and they have sharply higher through much of the morning. they are up triple digits. dow is up 110 points after a 90-point loss yesterday at the end of the day. we do have the jobs report coming up, and that is going to set the direction. in our headlines this morning, of course, that july jobs report, that is the key, out at 8:30 eastern time and economists are looking for non-farm payrolls to increase by 95,000 and looking for unemployment rate to remain steady at 8.2%. night capital remains in the spotlight with the firm fighting for survival after a trading glitch that resulted in a $440 million loss. fidelity, vanguard and td ameritrade stopped running orders through knight which is pursuing financial and strategic alternatives. >>> and samsung is trying to get the jump on apple by releasing its new galaxy smartphone on august 29th, that comes two weeks before an apple event in september in which it's expected to unveil its new iphone. >>> let's get to procter & ga

when and writer aaron sorkin who spends the words in his you know a famous hollywood liberal you can take those words and go back retroactively in apply them to any time in american history if i mean the issue here is very very fine to say with you do you think the united states had the fame kind of debt problems. you know thirty years ago forty years ago fifty years ago three hundred example no no no i don't we we we certainly have the same kind of debt we certainly are in a perilous situation here with that with the debt situation there's no question about that i mean as if you've noticed at the republican national convention they have the debt clock up there inside the hall that is running second by second by second so certainly people are extremely well aware of this but what i am saying to you is there any given moment in american history there have been problems i remember hearing the notion that in the end that summation there by jeff daniels who was the actor you were you were focusing on he talks about how we did all these impossible things where one of those things was goin

i'm joe kernen in business news, along with andrew ross sorkin.t, you know, someone similar and we ended up with wilbur ross, who it's the first thing you said when you sat down, it's tough to replace becky. >> it really is. >> but in the looks department let's just forget that right away but in other ways you can at least try. >> well that's true but i can't go on maternity leave. >> but she's not, she's on vacation and with her baby. not a baby anymore. >> nope. >> he's cute. wilbur ross with us. u.s. equity futures are looking for a little bit of a comeback from yesterday, up about 33 points on the session. >> we'll be getting key economic readings this morning, among them july retail sales will be coming out at 8:30 a.m. eastern with the commerce looking for an increase of 0.2%, following a 0.5% decline in june. the producer price index is seeing a rise of 0.3% after previous 0.1%. >>> home depot reporting earnings of $1.01 per share for the second quarter, four cents above estimates. sales slightly short of the $27 billion consensus. home dep

a single person mentions twitter ok so that right there you realize that the writer of that show sorkin the guy from the west wing has been living in a bubble for the last fifteen years and has not really stepped outside of his bungalow in malibu so you know these mainstream liberal new york times op ed writers are pathetically out of touch and within the rubric of the new york times bubble machine of out of touch this of course you've got paul krugman you've got thomas friedman who's who if you were to parse you know matt taibbi did a fantastic job parsing the letters thomas friedman editorial it's completely so contradictory and makes absolutely no sense but it's great if you're you know trying to get all of your opinions from inside a warped fortune cookie written by some guy just drop massive tabs of acid. yes but finally on this you know bill keller's all caps shouty tweet just reminds me of going back to the beginning this opening of the olympic ceremonies where the n.b.c. journalist is sitting there there's an honor to some guy named tim berners lee who the heck is that you know