>> i did. >> ted turner isn't as rich as he used to be. his fortune is estimated at $2 billion. more than $10 billion in 2000 after the sale of turner broadcasting to time warner. since then, turner has been side lined. it's been a long time since he ran cnn but he still watches it. and so you see what's going on. so you miss it, right? >> yeah, i miss it. >> what do you miss the most about it? >> the action. there is lots of action. >> you got involved in all sorts of decisions whether the first gulf war, you were there at the end of the soviet union. you remember those days very vividly. >> absolutely. >> any big -- any one story stand out in your mind the most looking back that really changed you, changed cnn, may have changed the world? >> well, us staying in baghdad to cover the war from behind the lines, it had never been done before. >> on behalf of all of us, all of us not only here at cnn but all of us who love news, all of us here in the united states and around the world, todd, thank you for what you have done and what you will continue to do. >> thank you, wolf. >> yo

that was ted turner. that he to recognize also recognize something of a vacuum that existed when he started cnn. both have done very well. as ald not describe the traditional journalists. what is your immediate reaction when he first saw usa today? >> i am always happy. the idea of having a national newspaper was new and astounding to me. you ask me to project what i think will be in the next 25 years. vision.o i believe the world will be terrible without a newspaper. newspapers in golf you. it is much better than on minor anything else. you find yourself rooting so much more than you would not have an intention to. i love newspapers. >> god bless you. a cup ofial with coffee. television in print form. did you have any reaction? >> on behalf of my colleague, he is not here because of the president's speech. he wanted me to tell you how sorry he is. is a huge al admirer. when usa today came out, let me start off. journalism is a high about profession. we like to do things we have always done them. we were

. >> i had no idea at the time i was going to end up married to ted turner and my black daughter wasto end up at a table in a southern plantation being served by black people. the only black person at the table. >> reporter: mary merged her old family's values with her new ones. in her book, she eloquently explains how these vastly different worlds were not so dissimilar after all. >> the black panthers, the fondas and the turners are as different as families can be. but they all had one crucial thing in common -- they were not shy about acting on their political beliefs. for them, the highest form of patriotism was dissent. all in the spirit of the trying to make the world a better place. >> reporter: but mary could never shed her tortured past and it was threatening her present mother/daughter relationship. >> i was alienating people. and the fact that i did it to the person i loved more in the whole wild world. >> she just said the person i love most in the world. >> don't say it again. isle start crying. isn't that beautiful? >> you are. >> makes me cry. >> reporter: what makes y

the governing board of the games when the games were over we gave the stadium to the braves to ted turner and to the braves that is a whole lot different. then a city or political jurisdiction using tax dollars to build a stadium to turn it over to the side of it is a curious do a quick poll there is anybody here in favor of of people being taxed to pay for a stadium that's for i feel your profit i would tell me so badly in no way no way no absolutely not that is. i think a lot of people love these politicians they get luxury boxes they get free tickets i mean a sports team does have some means there are serious and in the smith you know for years and years it's been pushed into the study of the sports garbage you know it's and it's been proven garbage and these three balls that appear in cities bankruptcy's and ask us montreal how they did after their olympics yeah sure you know it's like i just i don't get how the survivals hopefully the people of miami will vote it down but often that that doesn't happen often the people bars the billionaire can buy enough t.v.'s because the citizens u

does ted turner have a fetish for men in trunks? exploring the brotherly bonds of terrorists is like looking at the health benefits of cyanide or nerve gas. do you think they explored the mother-son bond? the media predetermines that the guns are evil. when terror strikes the media humanizes the heathens giving the defense lawyers a head start. a top defense lawyer is already there showing it is way cooler to defend evil than to prosecute it. cnn hawked a film called the reluctant fundamental list about a man who changinged after 9/11. not from the attack, but from being profiled. the implication is that profiling for potential terror is no better than terror itself. fyi, there is no such thing as a a -- reluctant fundamental list. it is as rare as a moon landing. its message, profiling encourages terror and that is deadly. it seeks to blunt your desire to deduce danger. rather than prevent attacks from the muslim supremacists, just place america's suffering in the context of global ills. when you grieve over boston they say now you

>> jane fonda, ted turner, calvin klein, quincy jones, nina blackwood.aspect of it. one of the big shows that you want to think about, the cosby show. that is '80s. let's take a look at it. >> i'm not going to college. >> damn right. >> it was once a throwback to 50s sitcom. >> cosby helps tear down the walls not just racists but generations. >> arthel: i love it. you interviewed. he has kept up and moved forward and took that as a real jumping-off point to do so much in his career. we love that. i want to ask you. we love the cosby show and so much '80s. is it a collective group of us desire to go back to the '80's a's or specific group of people. >> i think it's collective. we did a survey that showed that people today, people that were not alive or barrel alive in the '80s are still so interested in the '80s. they also surveyed 58% of the people said they would vote for reagan over obama. so incredible results. >> arthel: times people remember they felt, good times of the 1980s. you met gregg jarrett. we want to bring gregg into the conversation. >> g

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campaign, the closest you can come to a direct attack is one of his primary opponents, the son of ted turner, ran this ad which was a kind of crypto attack on the appalachain trail. >> we've come a long way. i know it's been too much, but what's a few trillion? it was all for you. i'll keep my promises this time. it will be different. i'm sorry. for all the mistakes i've made. sugar, just give me one more chance? >> break up with career politicians. the right guy, teddy turner. conservative republican, economics teacher, not a politician. >> i'm teddy turner and i approve this message. >> why were they not more straightforward in going after him for this? >> i think that goes back to the forgiveness element. if you're the person sharpening the pitch forks and going after sanford, you come off as kind of a jerk to the extent somebody can enjoy forgive ing ing a politician, they don't want to support people being uncharitable about it. >> he has managed to pull off, we don't know what the verdict of the voters are going to render, but to put himself in contention, he's managed to pull off some

ted turner, an amazing. in june, 1980.ded a 24/7 cable news network. he created cnn. we have been on the air ever since. the whole world, he changed the whole world. think of all the cable news networks that are out there right now, not just a half-hour newscast or an hour newscast but

ted turner changed the world. he'll be my special guest tomorrow. right here in "the situation room." erin ber nut "out front" starts right now. >>> north korea. it says it plans to restart one of its long dormant knew clear reactors and john kerry responds. >>> plus, michael jackson's family in court. they say concert promoter caused his death. does it add up? >>> president obama versus guns. does the nra won the debate? let's go "outfront." >>> good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. nuclear reaction. north korea says it now plans to restart a nuclear reactor that it shut down more than five years ago. secretary of state john kerry responded this afternoon saying the united states will not accept north korea as a nuclear power. >> let me be perfectly clear here today. the united states will defend and protect ourselves and our treaty ally the republic of korea. >> kung law is live in seoul tonight. what do you know about this? when they say we'll start it up again, when does that mean it would be up and running? >> reporter: well, just going bac

ted turner hurt it. ted turner said i think i would love to put that on t.v. when he started cnn, he brought braden and buchanan in and they started crossfire. pretty soon, bob novak joined them. braden buchanan or novak, braden, and then, they added others along the way. after tom braden moved on, michael kinsley took over on the left. i succeeded michael kingsley with geraldine ferraro and geraldean ran for senate against al dem atdemato and i was the only one for the last five years. i did crossfire for six years and i was on myself, a rotating gang on the right again, of bob novak and pat buchanan assed john sununu when pat was off running for president. mary madeline joined us tucker carlson. i think those were the ones but one of those on the right. me on the left. that the program lasted for 19 years. nineteen years. it was cnn's second highest rated program after larry king live. it was very successful. it was the first political debate show on television and it was by far the best. i will say that flat out en though, you know, i was part of it. it was

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ted turner and cnn. bloomberg and bloomberg? the list is endless.t this is free speech liberal style, which is to say liberals have free speech, conservatives don't. >> steve, what do you say to that? >> first of all, i think it's funny that brent wants to somehow prevent people who are working these newspapers from exercising their freedom of association, and freedom of speech, and their freedom to work somewhere else. for some reason, brent doesn't think they ought to have that right. and they shouldn't threaten to do something if they don't like the owner. so that's very interesting, brent. but secondly, you know, this is really about the perception of the newsroom itself and whether they're going to believe in professional journalism or not. >> what gives you -- what makes you think the koches -- this is the part of your column that bothered me, steve. >> i'll explain it. >> what makes you think the kochs, if they went through this, i don't know if they will or not. you've got a lost big newspapers here. the "baltimore sun," "chicago tribune," "

. >> but yes, we want to bring back the days of at home, and the days of ted turner, the days when we all got together because together we provided national scale. now i think we have the opportunity to create global scale. >> of course, it sounds as though he's talking about things that we may not want from a government perspective and that's not the point he was making and there are a lot of things that can come there you cooperation and whether it is at home and remember that was the first national broadband product or bailing out ted turner as the cable companies did when kirk kerkorian came calling. interesting. we'll have a lot more on charter and the thinking behind that, you may have heard him reference already the idea of a rollup. is it a consolidator charter through tom rutledge, and its ceo that we have a great deal of respect for and so much of what he does has tax consequences. >> virgin media, they're becoming a uk company to take advantage of those tax loss carry forwards and sirius satellite. he loves those kinds of companies. >> that's a great skop because this man k

i had no idea that at the time i was going to end up married to ted turner and my black daughter woulder old family values to new ones. in her book she eloquently explains how these vastly different worlds were not so dissimilar after all. >> the black panthers, the fondas and turners are as different as families can be, but there was one thing in common. they were not shy of acting on their beliefs. all in the spirit of trying to make the world a better place. >> reporter: but mary could never shed her tortured past and it was threatening her present mother/daughter relationship. >> i was slowly realizing i was alienating myself from people and the fact that i did it to the person who i loved the most in the world wide world made me realize i was in crisis. >> she just said the person she loved the most in the world wild world. >> don't say that again, i'll start crying. isn't that beautiful? >> well, you are. >> reporter: what makes you emotional about that? >> love. i mean, is there anything else that matters in life? >> reporter: mary threw herself into work helping others. she tau

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. >> doesn't ted turner. >> it's a titanic battle. >> it's a battle for net work. >> where is dan hessyre? the ceo of sprint? he's a tall man and the other guy is a man. are you telling me the tall man and the man are now out? >> not necessarily. we have a lot of things. there is a look at dan hesse, the dish offer which have been in the workseses for a long time the people involved in the situation tell me. when dish got approval by the fcc for its ownership of spectrum. there were some waivers that were needed and that was way back last year and it put it in a position to start thinking about what could we possibly do? earn this in spectrum and it's lying there, it's fall low and not being used and you cannot build another wireless company from the ground up even though you have the very valuable spectrum. he's been looking for a partner. he's been trying to figure it out. clearly it goes back to the strategy where one would assume mobile devices are the key. i right now have a company that brings entertainment to your television, but i need to be in a position to bring all sorts of t

pmcerebral palsy and cmo turner and web corp also beginning their process to identify their summer interns for this coming summer. and at this point, i would like to invite ted up to talk about the effort to watch out to the veterans and to build a network of agencies in northern california to track and place veterans into opportunities in the construction industries. >> okay. >> thank you, very much. >> i wanted to give you a brief update on how things stand currently, on march fifth we had the building veteran futures task meeting. and it was basically convening not only in the community organizations and variety ran's administration and representatives and several trade unions but also we had contractors in the room as well. several of the larger contractors in the bay area. and panko and all of the ones that do the work in the city and we have a lot of collar ration going, but for this i wanted to point out that all of us and the contractors are on board with the veteran's hiring, in terms of actively seeking to higher veterans when appropriate. we also have the trade unions also and the trade and the carpet and the engineers as well as the iron work and