i am expecting the playbook will be played out like that. >> and how have your converitations gone with people on the hill? i know there was a bill that would allow for services like aereo to continue. do you find that viewpoint has found traction? >> guest: our goal is to educate lawmakers around what we are doing. but what i do find and find universely is when people look at the product people say this is so good. i get it. when are you in washington, d.c.? and i have to tell them not yet unfortunately. theft all across the board. a good number of them don't have cable. they don't make enough to have cable or don't want it. they are busy people doing all of these things. it resinates very much, though. we don't have -- i don't know what comcast spends in lobbying but my assumption or re recollectirec recollection is it is a big number. we don't have that. and that is not our strategy. we believe if we apeople -- appeal to a base of consumers -- they will support us. and i believe in an appetite of encouraging things. >> host: how did we get to the supreme court with this? >> guest: we

>> guest: look, i think the standard playbook is litigate, and if you fail, legislate. and if you fail in legislation, then figure out a good business model, right? so i'm expecting that the playbook would be played out as it's -- >> and how have your conversations gone with people on the hill? senator rockefeller, i know, offered a video bill that would exless sitly -- explicitly allow for services like aereo to continue. do you find that viewpoint has gained traction? >> guest: we are not engaged in seeking any legislative change or influence of any kind. our goal thus far has been to educate lawmakers around what we're doing, and what i do find and i find almost universeally is when people look at the product, people say, oh, now i get it. this is so great. when are you in d.c.? and i have to tell them, unfortunately, not yet. staff all across the board, you know, a good number of them, they don't have cable. they don't make enough money to have cable. or they don't want to. their lifestyle -- they're busy people, they're doing all these different things at times. it

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here's what's in the playbook. small-cap swoon. is the worst performing major index this year about to turn, or burn? holy crop. why the next threat to the bull market could be in aisle three at your grocery store. the sysco kids. let's meet the starting lineup. it's great to see you, great to have you here. >> thank you for having me. >> we do begin with stocks looking for a second straight day of gains. and while the nasdaq and momentum names remain in focus, so, too, is beaten up russell 2000, down nearly 6% year-to-date, raising the question of whether that's the biggest worry for investors and your money. let's take that to the panel. steve weiss, what do you think about the small-cap story that's been somewhat overlooked by the biotech meltdown and some of the mo-mo names? >> it's kind of interesting, because the adage goes, nationally proven, small caps may lead you up, and lead you down. for some, it's a troubling signal. this is part of the natural evolution of the market, coming off a great year. this year is far from done

russianraight from the playbook on crimea. it is designed to foment such instability that president clinton events that have an obligation to rescue and protect -- president putin will have an obligation to rescue and protect. it's not surprising at all that the u.s. government should be saying quite openly that this is a russian plant operation. it has created a profound crisis in ukraine itself for the survival of the united democratic ukraine in one country. if these cities do secede or the russian government does come in, we are looking at a divided ukraine, the largest and most important country in that part of europe. >> so what is to stop russia? the u.s. has warned of more sanctions, but clearly russia's not bothered by sanctions. >> it doesn't seem to be. president putin has a very strong hand in the poker match and the u.s., canada, and russia have a very weak hand. president putin is an authoritarian figure. he makes decisions quickly and strategically. he has opposite him a western world which is very much divided.

he's got a look at the playbook. good morning. >> good morning. you look well recovered from your race. >> thank you very kindly. the screaming headline on the top of politico right now is who is dr. ben carson. this is a guy who's very popular in some conservative circles. he did well in the cpac straw poll. and how wild a wild card is he? >> he's the wildest of wild cards. he's going to keep making news the the 2016 campaign field. this is a field that's looking for a story line, looking for people to make news. the ben carson phenomenon i think started as an online fund raising gambit. he first got noticed at the national prayer breakfast a year ago. his speech, 3 million youtube views. there's now a superpac draft ben carson which has raised $2 million. it's starting to raise a political structure. this is a former neurosurgeon from baltimore who says he doesn't want to run. won't even say he's a republican. but he does say that more physicians like himself should be involved in politics and policy. and the grassroots out there has latched onto

chief white house correspondent at politico, mike allen has a look at the playbook. ood morning, guys. >> let's talk about dave camp announcing his riretirement. he is not running for re-election and dave camp aside now, who fills that spot? >> it's almost certainly going to be paul ryan now the budget chairman. the camp announcement is fascinating. it's a continuation of the retirement of a bunch of senior republicans. the other day when joe and mika were down in d.c., we were talking around the table no surprise democrats are leaving. they don't think they are going to get the house back but to see all of these older republicans leaving is surprising. doc hastings and buc mckeown and mike rogers. all of these very known names leaving at once. dave camp who earlier released his fantasy tax reform plan, got a lot of guff about it from his other republicans because it was causing them trouble. now we see why. he wants to put it out there as his marker and we are told that dave camp in his new life will find some way, whether it's foundation or a business to continue pr

so let's break out the playbook here. u buy one call and sell two higher strike calls against it. but to protect yourself you then buy an even higher strike squall. the bottom line is this, you want the stock the go to the two strikes that you're short. that's the target for the stock. dan, walk us through a situation where you might actually use a call fly. >> i actually use them a lot. to me, one of the main criteria, if the implied volatility of options is high. i have conviction of where the stock will go over a set period of time. and i like to define the range. and i'm actually doing it for less premium if i would if i bought an outright call. that's why i use them a lot. usually has to do with the price of options. >> i want to go out and ask people what they think is straddle is? >> don't you want to do that. it's not that kind of show here, mike. i don't know what kind of responses you'll get. >> a straddle is an options term. >> we know that, obviously. >> you'll ask them what they think a strangle is and they'll

>> it did move voters, and why it is in the playbooks for the democrats.ut the republicans have learned so far, just looking at a lot of the campaigns in the country, they have learned the issue about going after women and toward women. you have seen the number of women candidates on the republican side who are strong including the michigan republican that you just played terry lynn land, she is leading in polls in michigan. that is a big deal as republicans spread the map and force democrats to defend in places they didn't think they would defend it is likely that the republicans could get the six seats they need. >> it is fascinating. bret baier watching it with us. >> deadly twisters ripping through the heartland and leaving 16 people dead and paths of utter destruction as thousands try to recover. take a look at imrages from arkansas. hardest hit areas is homes and businesses destroyed after they barrel through an 80 mile area. this is a debris of the tornados. it is a process. we have people and dogs going through the rubble and trying to find who eve

even so, that will not happen the next five or 10 years. right playbook is to try to do everything we can to have economic growth because we are still adding jobs to the economy every month. right playbook is to grow the economy even faster and put in policies that, again, e-i-e- i-o. the kind of from narrow economic policy perspective. we shouldolutely what be doing. instead of doing planning where the robots are taking care of everything for us, that is coming in the lifetime of most people in this room. >> we have another major structural problem. >> there is so much wealth. what are you going to do with $19 billion? >> even if they wanted to give it away, they probably cannot. tell you the sad fact. they may have signed the giving pledge that they will give away half their money before they die, they will not die. they will figure out technology to keep them alive for 200 years. philanthropy of the 20th century industrial age has figured out how to edit the portfolios. rockefeller, gates, and others are giving money where they can but they are not put

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. >> joe you asked about -- [applause] you asked about the right playbook here. any economist would say the right economic playbook for this period in the short term is actually really straightforward. it's even easier to remember. all you have to keep in mind is e. i e. i o. the old mcdonald theme song in your head over and over. that will tell you what the classic econ 101 playbook is entrepreneurship, immigration, education infrastructure and a little bit of foresight -- basic research would be fundamental. we are doing a lousy job at most elements of the playbook right now. we talked about education i couldn't agree more. andrew mentions infrastructure and broadband. the american society of civil engineers gives our current infrastructure d+. this is a first world country. what are we doing with any a+ level infrastructure? this makes no sense from a basic economic respect of so one of the things that frustrates me is maybe the econ 101 playbook is not going to be sufficient to change the direction to get us some of some of the unpleasant situations wherein. i

. >> do you see this as the crimean playbook where the locals get upset, storm government buildings,aise the russian flag and russia sweeps in to the rescue and seizes its territory? do you think that russia has the aim of trying to grab some of these eastern cities? >> well, it really can't be the crimean playbook because the situation in crimea was very different. there, the population was overwhelmingly pro-russian. i don't think anybody knows for sure how the population would react if russian troops actually came in. >> but isn't the population in the eastern cities also largely pro-russian? russians, the language that is largely spoken there? >> well, the language is not always a determine ant of how people feel. i think the younger generation of ukrainians are much more western-oriented, and they might, you know, be russian speakers. they might have russian parents, so on and so forth. but it doesn't necessarily mean that they want to have eastern ukraine annexed back to russia. >> if you think russia is deliberately stirring the flames in eastern ukraine, do you think it's bec

the markets. here's today's playbook. april draws to a close, what will an often messy month mean for your money with some big events looming? hashtag plunge. with twitter suffering one of the worst days since going public, we hear from an analyst who's gotten it right on what happens now. and batting over bezos, amazon shares is one of the year's worst performers, so why is one of our traders buying? let's meet pete, john, weiss, steve grasso on the floor of the new york stock exchange, and steve liesman with the nasty gdp report, what it means for the markets. we begin with stock, about to march into may amid uncertainty about where the economy is heading. especially after that miserable gdp report. so our question today is this -- are stocks spring-loaded for a bounce or set for more selling in the weeks ahead? we take that to the panel. pete, what's your best guess here? >> i think there realms spring-loaded, and i think there are other parts of the market that will struggle. i don't see what the catalysts are. energy

the right playbook to grow the economy even faster. put in policies, again, eieio to make sure people probably prepared to incentivize work instead of penalize with our tax system. that is absolutely -- i speak from narrow economics policy perspective. that is absolutely what we should be doing instead of doing whiteboard planning with a world where the robots is taking care of everything for us. i think that world is coming in the lifetimes of most people in this room but not where we should spend our energy now. >> we have a major structural problem we're creating massive amounts of wealth in small amount of people, you talked about that before i got here. there is so much wealth, what are you growing to do with $19 billion? and -- >> whatever they want. >> well even if they wanted to give it away they probably can't because they don't have the infrastructure to give it away. and let me tell you another little sad fact they may have signed giving pledge which they claim they will give away half the money before they die, they will pr

s continued use of the playbook has led to dire consequences for americans. for example, in march 10 of this year the "new york times" reported on the story of 81-year-old earnstein cundiff of columbus, ohio, a bibetic with deteriorating health living on a fixed income. she now struggles to pay her energy bills as a direct result of e.p.a. air regulations that have shut down electricity generation in her part of the country. to advance e.p.a.'s extreme agenda, it is also clear that this e.p.a. extends its regulatory arm with complete disregard for american taxpayer dollars. and we have many examples of that. these examples of waste and abuse make congressional oversight absolutely critical. that is why this learg and follow-up work is so enormously important to get at this concerning culture of which unfortunately john beal is just the poster child not the full extent. thank you. >> i want to place in the record a counter to some of these things. an article in the "washington post" that says outside of zpwina mccarthy, there wasn't ever in all the years under

this is straight out of the playbook of the post-soviet russian state.o use the fact that they are huge supplier of natural gas as a weapon to influence what other states do. since the start of this crisis, they have not shut off supplies. they have threatened to. the main thing they have done is jack up the prices severely. that adds to the stress for the new government in kiev. host: why does this matter to the greater eu? guest: europe gets a big portion of its gas from russia. the biggest single supplier for the european union's russia. goes across ukraine. depending on what happens in the dynamics between russia and ukraine, you could physically disrupt the amount of gas that gets into europe. that matters for heating and electricity. it matters a bit less now that we're in the springtime. in the past, russian gas was cut off in the winter when you could feel it. it is more acute in april and may. not such a big bill. host: let's talk supply and demand as we show our viewers a few of these charts here. the first is the chart from the energy informat

we will talk about the playbook that they are pushing through. oming up, peugeot, under pressure. slighting. can i get back on track? we will be live in paris next. writing by the seat of his pants, he is putting it all on thesene to sell powerboats. nice job. see you in a moment. ♪ >> good morning. welcome back. you are watching "the pulse." i am guy johnson. let's talk about something happening in france. peugeot, under pressure. stock is down. they are preparing to splash their model line-up. to the principle on the energy and transportation team. he joins us from paris. the market seems unimpressed. are they waiting for details of the new plan? stock is trading lower today. >> there have been some announcements. they'rehe fact that going to build cars that are in line with a different market. they're going to set the original division, one for russia, one for jamaica, one for china. they are more a tommy muska with more power to design their own -- they're more a, must tonomous with more power to design their own car. >> why don't they build f

. >> any economist would talk about the right playbook. it is straightforward. this will tell you what the classic playbook is. infrastructure, and a little bit of a force fit. research into fundamental technologies. we are doing a lousy job at most elements of the playbook right now. we talked a little bit about education. i could not agree more. amber mentioned rock band. this is america. what are we doing with this? this makes no sense. maybe the econ 101 playbook is not going to be sufficient to get us out of the situation we are in. it's absolutely necessary, and we are doing a lot of it right now. >> as we have seen, we are currently fighting about how much to cut government budget. a lot of things he said are pretty expensive. how can our political system actually get us there? >> it requires people to get involved and make the case to their elected officials that is what they really want. does anyone think the world was different in the 1920's or 1930's when general electric controlled the electric supply and they said it was too expensive to run electric

is getting very nervous, this is earlier the same playbook we saw in crimea. real fears moscow may now try to take part of the east ukraine. tens of thousands of russian soldiers are along the border. the region speaks largely russian across eastern ukraine. the darker colours show there are more russian speakers in that part of the country. new demands in three cities of donetsk, dunov and carr kiev. demonstrators broke through barricades on the weekend and are demanding vladimir putin send in soldiers as peacekeepers. people in donetsk, by the way, want to vote on whether to join with russia. it's the same calls crimea made and russia answered back by taking it over. >> appreciate it. thank you. we'll keep an eye on that. sound like the same playbook. >> kim is on the ground in donetsk watching this unfold. >> this is a celebration of independence. thousands of pro-russian demonstrators gathered outside the government administration building taken over by activists on sunday. listening to songs of a soviet hera, sending a message of support to those inside. w

you think we're going to see more irs, more benghazi, more of sort of the old playbook as the new playbook kind of wanes as a smart strategy? >> i think absolutely. if you take a look, for example, in some of the states where you have governors who refused to take the medicaid expansion money. their numbers are going down. and a number of republican members of congress, when they went home over this nice break they had, you know, they were confronting constituents who now have the affordable care act and they have, you know, access to health care and benefits that they like having. so, being, you know, it's not a good message to say to your constituents, well, you don't deserve that, i'm going to take it away from you. it's much better to say, you know, stick with us because the irs is coming after you. >> yeah. the other way this works, obviously, karen, is for darrell issa itself. taki take a look at the fund-raising totals. not doing too shabby in terms of his own political fund raising as he keeps his profile high on this issue. >> absolutely, and they know there's certain. both sides

the playbook so easy. 2014 is incredibly difficult. the one place i would focus on would be accumulates. no one likes them. they continue to perform. even on a day like today, energy, leading the surge higher. that's a place you can be but you have to acknowledge right now in the environment, most folks, including myself, are very conflicted where to put money. >> ben, do you have any confliction on where to put money in the battle developed on the street? >> my conviction is the trader model, you want to buy when everybody else is selling it. this market, since the beginning of the year has been a stock picker's market. you can't just buy the whole beta group. that being said, i continue to focus energy. jpmorgan came out and picked five limited partnerships. it doesn't get more old school there. you're buying protection or safety similar to the bond market. my friend, eric across the street hates when i mention mlps, likes it to be kept out of the view of the public. it's been a very successful place especially when you have the likes

that's the playbook. >> the long-running massachusetts casino debate came to a close on november 22,r deval patrick signed into law a bill allowing casino gambling in the bay state. the new law allows for construction of three casinos in separate regions of massachusetts. echoing many other governors around the country, governor patrick says that the new casinos will put people to work and strengthen the massachusetts economy. well, that's our edition of 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm steve kroft. thanks for joining us. [ticking] >> the mood is dark. people are pissed. why not try to do better? >> jeff immelt is the ceo of general electric and one of the country's most important business leaders. now he may have an even more important title, jobs czar. immelt, a republican, was recruited by president obama to help generate ideas about creating jobs. >> if you just looked at how many hours a day do republicans spend on job creation, do democrats spend on job creation, does the white house, it's nowhere close to 100%. we're not spending enough time on jobs. >> you know, the economists say tha

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. >> the top stories in the "political playbook." bill karins. >> finally, guys, spring is here, coast to coast. what a beautiful forecast today and right through the weekend. almost the entire nation. today, just a perfect day, nice, chilly morning. light jacket needed. you'll carry it home this afternoon. 65 in d.c. 53 in boston. so it's a little cooler in northern new england. but i've got a good warmup coming also. as far as the forecast, new york city, a slight chance of showers not a big deal. the weekend clears out to 70 by sunday. this is the best stretch of weather we've had in a long time. that goes for d.c., too, where the cherry blossoms will be peeking in the days ahead. this will be the best time to view them. look at sunday, chance to being in mid to upper 70s. the rest of the country, same story. all the warm east that's moving through is heading east. death valley, the first to reach 100. and today in phoenix, 97 degrees. i think you get the picture. this is a nice quiet stretch we're going to see into the weekend wi

good job in 2012 letting this play out, and you saw todd akin and that phenomenon, and is that the playbook2012. and lee atwater who was a former, and he is deceased now, and he is a brilliant political strategist, and when the opponent is shooting themselves, don't get in the way. if they are drowning, throw them an anvil. >> and so that is the thing that happened for republicans they nominated the nuts and lost seats that they should have won. and again in 2012, so they nominated nuts and hoped they would win, but democrats are hoping they do it again, because it is not going the work electorally. >> and so this fight for the soul of the party, and you saw firsthand in south carolina, lindsey graham in the primary of his life, and ted cruz not endorsing him, and rand paul is not vocale on his behalf, and this is playing out in local politics vividly. >> and that is right. you kr seeing the folks like lindsey graham going aggressively after the tea party and building the campaign machines early to fend off the challenges from the left. and lindsey graham has essentially maneuvered his way

that's not what's going on to the right playbook is to grow the economy faster and to put in policies. making sure people are properly prepared to incentivize work instead of penalize it with our tax system. i will speak from an economics policy perspective. that's absolutely what we should be doing instead of trying to do white were planning for the world where the robots are taking care of everything for us. i think that world is coming within the lifetimes of most people in his room but is not what we should be spending our energy on right now. >> another major structural problem which is we are creating massive amounts of wealth by the small -- but they're so much wealth. what are you going to do with $19 billion? and whatever they want to even if they wanted to give it a way they probably can't because they don't have the infrastructure to give it away. let me tell you a sad fact they claim they will give away half their money before they died they are probably not going to die because they are going to figure some technology that will keep them alive for 200 years. our philanthr

here's the playbook. substance or smoke screen? did apple really deliver or just change the conversation? >>> saving face. after a superstrong quarter for zuk & company, can it reverse the bubble sell-off? >>> under assault, why is wall street darling underarmour getting sacked? we'll debate that stock's next move. pete, josh, murph are on the desk as is sheila damrajan. we begin with the stocks today. ending the six-day run and making a reversal today. what looked like an apple-driven rally turned, and turned quickly. now turning again. we're positive. what do you make of this move, josh? >> the intraday moves are interesting. i've heard people blaming the sell-off and then the recovery on a sell program. i wouldn't know. i'm not on the floor of the exchange and not overly focused on that. i do think, scott, there's something to be said for the concept that wall street doesn't really care about good or bad. it cares about better or worse than what was already expected. in the case of apple, no one was expecting the news. even thoug

that was president obama's message when he laid out what certainly will be the playbooks this year. to give a previously scheduled speech about the minimum wage and no doubt did some last-minute prewrites on that speech after paul ryan released his new budget. >> just yesterday, republicans in congress put forward a budget for the country that i believe would shrink opportunity for your generation. it starts by giving a massive tax cut to households making more than $1 million, the very folks who have benefited the most over the last 20 years from this economy that is benefitting people at the top. if this all sounds familiar, it should be familiar, because it was their economic plan in the 2012 campaign. it was their economic plan in 2010. it's like that movie groundhog day. except it's not funny. they're not necessarily cold hearted, they just sincerely believe that if we give more tax breaks to a fortunate few and we invest less in the middle class and we reduce or eliminate the safety net for the poor and the sick and we cut food stamps and we cut medicaid when 'let banks and pol

. >> even if republicans want to fix the law, they don't have the playbook on that. >> the president says democrats should go out and fight on this. >> will senate democrats take his advice? >> we're not at acceptance yet. at some point there will be an interest to figure out how we make this work. >> we shall never surrender. >> we shall never surrender. >> let it go the oscar-winning cover-friendly song from the movie "frozen" is now president obama's message to republicans in their relentless fight against the nation's health care law. >> they said nobody would sign up. they were wrong about that. they said it woub unaffordable for the country. they were wrong about that. they were wrong to keep trying to repeal a law that is working. i know every american isn't going to agree with this law. but i think we can agree that it's well past time to move on. >> move on, you say. how about a big, fat n-o preceded by an h-e double hockey sticks. #full repeal. and when republicans weren't fomenting the zeal for repeal, they were launching the latest round of trutherism. house majority whip

we basically started by throwing out the old playbook of the proper way to write a headline to run aroperpany, and they how would we do it for our friends and people that we know? traffic hashy's shot up, so has controversy around the site. what do you say to people who claim you're stealing their content and just changing the headline? >> we actually get very little feedback like that. the actually feedback that we get are from the people that put their heart and soul into a oneo, and it got 100 views youtube. one of these upworthy curators found it, packaged it and shared it with our huge audience, and got 500,000 or one million, or 5 million views. >> some pretty interesting stuff. how would you guys and define the phrase click fraud? >> click fraud generally refers to someone else running up the numbers. what we do is try to devise headlines that bring people to content that they will love you upworthy only works if people get to the content and love it so much that they want to share it with all of their friends. that is why the average media site gets about 600 social comments.res a

>> well, it plays into the playbook, and shows that they are looking to give americans a wage increasea salary hike, and that the current minimum wage just isn't when you adjust it for inflation isn't up to the past standards and so this is a way for them to be sure that folks can get more money, and tomron, o tamron, some americans believe that the economy is not working for them, and it is a way to tap into the dangers of the income inequality, and the republicans are countering using a congressional budget office report saying that hundreds of thousands of jobs could be eliminated in a minimum wage increase, although the same congressional budget office report says that millions of americans will end up getting a wage-hike. >> and talk about the republicans. i mean, we have talked about this a lot, mark, regarding the public opinion in the polls showing largely that people support it, an increase in the minimum wage, but it is not moving the conversation forward with the republicans, and so what could we see different as the senate is look agent this closer? >> well with, the one th

the playbook, sell in may, for the past four months, it's been the month that shook up stocks. what will happen this way? keith banks of u.s. trust gives us his view. >>> ebay brawl. one stock, two traders, and a fight over the internet stock. you'll decide who wins. cnbc 25, from jobs, icahn, ellison, and the rest. we're ranking the most influential in the past quarter century. >>> let's meet the starting lineup, pete, murph, joe, josh are with us today. we begin with stocks and the big question facing investors everywhere -- is this going to be another miserable may? or will the markets find some traction in the face of a lot of uncertainty? we take that to the panel. joe, what do you think? there's still a lot in front of us. >> we talked about it yesterday. we all dismissed -- i don't believe in the sell in may and go away concept. i think it's particularly -- there's tax inefficiencies. i don't like it. maybe the strategy becomes doecht buy in may and go away. i mentioned yesterday, i think what you do now is seek diversification. >> -- heads up here -- i think the heads u

northwestern has followed the playbook and not pressure on these young men is intense. ty that they love, they that they bled for, is fighting to stop unionization. the people who could be helped by unionization far outnumber those who fear it. college football players are those with a central force. but they're barely able to go to class or keep a few dollars in their pocket. the rule, often bizarre and sometimes leave the players hungry. listen to the basketball player of the year shabazz napier. >> that doesn't cover everything. we do have hungry nights that we don't have enough money to get food. sometimes, needing money -- money is needed. >> the rule around feeding athletes recently changed. and they have the growing potential of unionization had something to do with why the rule changed. unionization would give these athletes a say in shaping their lives. but unionization is hard. it often comes with a personal price. curt flood, the baseball player, challenged his support in 1969 and the baseball union was new. the battle caused flood his career but changed sport

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. >> the neighbor does not like him. >>> joining us with the political playbook, john harrisod morning. >> good morning. >> president obama we saw hitting the road yesterday and seemingly back in the campaign mode at the university of michigan. following what he calls the successful rollout of the health care law. in that speech, john, billed on this address on minimum wage but the president ended up taking republicans to task over their latest budget proposal. >> when they give you these budgets they don't tell you what they caught because they don't like it. they give one idea which is to repeal obamacare, because they haven't tried that 50 times. if this all sounds familiar, it should be familiar because it was their economic plan in the 2012 campaign. it was their economic plan in 2010. it's like that movie groundhog day but it's not funny. if they tried to sell this sandwich at zingerman's they would have to call it the stink burger or the meanwich. >> the one liners there. i think it's 51 times technical they have tried to repeal it. but how is paul ryan's budget being

>> the standard playbook is litigate, and if you fail, legislate. if you fail legislation, figure out a good business model. -- cting >> how have your conversations done with people on the hill? editor rockefeller offered a video bill that would explicitly allow services like aereo to continue. do you find that has gained traction? >> we are not engaged in seeking any legislative change or influence. our goal has been to educate lawmakers around what we are doing, and what i do find almost universally is that when people look at the product people say, now i get it. this is so great. when are you and d.c.? i have to tell them, not yet. all across the board. a good number of them do not have cable. they do not make enough money to have cable. or they -- their lives, they are busy people, doing all these different things. it resonates. i do not know what comcast spends. on lobbying. but our recollection is it is a big number. that is not who we are, and that is not our strategy. we believe that if we appeal to a decent base of consumers, these consumer

the playbook is there. on of that cash into investing in their core businesses. that could be the recession. it could be regulatory worry. there's been a relatively inaction, inertia by corporate management teams and their respective boards. this is a ripe opportunity for activists. one thing that people don't cover is that there's a lot of minority protection rights in the graham-frank legislation, which is helping the big activist players get what they want from these boards and from these ceos. so, michelle, i think this is still the first or second inning. again, we have over $4.5 billion in this, and so we're a big believer in -- >> i understand why allergan, the acquired company rises sharply, the buyer falls, because there's expected to be an arbitrage, but take a look at shares of valiant. they're sharply higher. >> i was struck by that, as well. weird after-hours action based on breaking news is not exactly something i'm comfortable -- really strong thesis about. it could be that if it's an accretiv

this is sort of straight out of the playbook of the post-soviet russian state, to use the fact that there is a huge supply of natural gas as a weapon to end funds what other states to. since the start of this crisis they have not shut off supply. they have threatened to, but the main thing they have done is jacked up the prices severely that the cash strapped detainee -- ukrainian government has to pay. that is as to the stress. >> why does this matter to the greater you? >> first of all, europe gets a big portion of its gas from russia. you know, there are other suppliers, but the biggest single supplier for the european union is russia. and then about half of that goes across the ukraine. so depending on what happens in the dynamics between russia and ukraine, you could physically disrupt the amount of gas that gets into europe which matters for heating, electricity. it matters a little bit less now that we are in the springtime. in the past economic come in the winter. it's a little bit more acute. in april and may it's not such a big deal. this is something that everyone in europe is