Decemb december k putting together two companies that in terms of programming are similar. Its not like were going from one network that does reality or that type of programming to sports or lots of scripted work or whatnot this is putting those two things together the question is are you better off putting those two together or in this new age of media trying to go into scripted gore into a premium thing scripted. Scripted. But this has been bandied about. For a long time they were two sort of theyre not like outliers that deserve to get together. If it was going to happen, would put these together for scale thats where the synergistic value is some analysts would question this how much more power does a discovery scripps together have in terms of carriage agreement Going Forward . How much value proposition, if you want this channel you have to take this channel that was more scripps problem than a discovery problem zaslav yesterday admitted we are managing through the new times, dau
Importance of it. And you had people there planning to take down to them a very, very important statue and renaming of the park from robert e. Lee to the another name. And George Washington was a slave owner, and was George Washington a slave owner, and so now will George Washington going to be losing the status . Are we going to be takeing down statues to George Washington . How about thomas jefferson, what do you think of thomas jefferson, you like him . Okay. Good. Are we going to be take down the statue, because he was a major slave owner. And President Trump initially criticized the violence on many sides rather than singling out the white supremist, and many viewed that as an inadequate response. Yesterday, he stepped back into the front of the microphone to condemn the groups tied to them, but then he reversread the statement. The aep frank center released a strong statement a moment ago and said how much more proof does america need after todays president ial fright show. Presi
Valley and delaware. The fog will disappear, well get sunshine and look at the warmup. 90 for new jersey. Upper 80s in delg weaware and 9 philadelphia, too. Ill break it down hour by hour when im back in ten minutes. But first Jessica Boyington is watching fog on the cameras. Thats right. So a few problems, too. Lower makefield, a crash involving a mote cycle 95 north near route 332. Earlier all lanes were blocked. It looks like they have opened part of it back up, but you will see some slowdowns moving by the scene. Vine street expressway is closed in both directions between broad and the schuylkill expressway. Schuylkill dealing with construction booth directions from city line avenue to the blue route. Were seeing scattered lane reconstructions there. And watching fog, it looks like one of our cameras in millville, route 55 right around route 49. Back to you. I think there is blame on both sides. And i have no doubt about it and you dont have any doubt about it either. That is the c
There. So much more to talk about, but i hope to check in with you over time. I hope so, too. David, appreciate your time. Bob bakish, ceo of viacom. Carl, back to you for the start of squawk alley. Good stuff, david. Thank you so much, david faber. Its 8 00 a. M. At twitter headquarters in san francisco, 11 00 a. M. On wall street, and squawk alley is live. Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Jon fortt, sara eisen and myself at post 9. Dows up 101. Record highs for the dow, the s p and the nasdaq, as yields and retailers are climbing. Weve got this meeting between the president and key Airline Executives in washington, d. C. For that well go to phil lebeau. Hi, phil. Reporter hi, guys. I want to bring in gary kelly, ceo of Southwest Airlines. Thank you for joining us after coming out of a meeting with the president. Give us a summary of what you talked about. This meeting went on longer than you expected. It went on it was a very good meeting. We talked to the president an
Make America Great again trump hat. As you can tell he is still physically injured and emotionally shattered. Wednesday, about 7 00 at night as the man walked his dog down the stretch of vermont avenue. Suddenly four men came at him, called him snowflake and said this is what a Trump America looks like. He says they then used a homophobic slur and began pelting him repeatedly with objects. No, im not okay. I just really, i need time to deal with all of this. Stephen we caught up with the victim outside of his home today. He does not want his face nor his injuries which are still very visible shown on camera. He talked about the attack and his road to recovery. Its not easy to think about. I cant remember everything. Stephen meanwhile the attack in an early evening on a wellt troubled tonight. Horror. Great sadness that Something Like this would happen among our friends. Stephen d. C. Police are investigating this as a hate crime because the man apparently was attacked because of his se