Good morning. Thank you for joining us. I have the honor of introducing this mornings very special program in conversation with Chris Matthews and former ceo and executive vice chairman of the corporation. Each night millions of viewers turn ttuned to msnbc at 7 00 tor chris deliver his trademark openings to hardball that the roots of the journalism career are actually with hearst. For over 15 years, i thought it was 12 but he corrected me like a journalist. Crisp is a washington, d. C. Bureau chief of the examiner and was a syndicated columnist for the San Francisco chronicle after frank thought the San Francisco chronicle and then he went on to not only launched hardball that successfully over eight bestselling books. As everyone knows, he returned this week after the hiatus to recover from Prostate Cancer surgery and we couldnt be more grateful to you being here today. Thank you. I had the pleasure of working with Frank Bennett the past 26 years. What is remarkable is that represent
Are you guys picking up audio and mark. I guess its working. We will get you gentlemen shortly. You for joining us. Im jordan worthing, and i have the honor of introducing this mornings very special programmer, a conversation with Chris Matthews and former ceo and executive vice chairman of the Hearst Corporation frank douglas. Millions of viewers turned to msnbc at7 00 , to hear chris deliver his trademark openings to hardball. Butthe roots of his journalism career are actually with first. For over 15 years, i thought it was 12, he corrected me like a journalist, chris was Washington Bureau chief of the examiner and the syndicated columnist for the chronicle after frank bought the San Francisco chronicle and then chris went on to lunch hardball with eight bestselling books. And as everyone knows, chris returned to the air after a brief hiatus recover from Prostate Cancer surgery and we couldnt be more grateful for you to being here today. Ive had the pleasure of working with frank Fra
He returned to the air this week after recovering from Prostate Cancer surgery we cannot be more grateful for you to be here today. I have the pleasure of working with frank over the past 26 years burqa what is remarkable that represents less than half of the ten year having his company for the better part of six decades with 40 years as ceo. Under his leadership it has expanded including historic partnerships the History Channel a anion lifeline and of course espn. Expanding between three and 33 television stations and they built their legacies through the best in class brand. We are most proud of the importance of Community Service to better the lie. To highlight the importance of corporate leadership to capture the culture of our company and to summarize i believe its not who you know when taking a page lets play hardball. [applause] bad beats at a Memorial Service i ever attended. [laughter] thats you find out who your friends are but first of all the hero of mine and i always knew
Huawei parts and various particulars there. That will freeze up fast. No more extensions. That is the push and pull on stocks right now. Meanwhile this issue of the on going hearing right now, inspector general, many others on capitol hill, whistleblower i should say, where all this is going, sentiment built to the conversation with the ukrainian leader that the president had back in july. A lot of people are looking at this 1998 feeling all over again. House democrats are pouncing on the whistleblowers complaint. It was House Republicans in 1998 were zealously going after impeaching president bill clinton. Impeached him in the house. Went nowhere to the senate. Survived that and had a good post presidency. They did the party out at that time from the white house did recapture the white house a couple years later. Markets were throughout back then. More of a little bit after roller coaster ride. Blake burman is here. Reporter almost simultaneously President Trump sent out a tweet that
Post nine of the New York Stock Exchange Morgan Brennan has the morning off. Dow session low was about 150. Well start with this rally in tech leading the s p to record closes yesterday these regulatory headlines out of d. C. Not slowing down the momentum out of the valley evaluation partners, early facebook investor, Roger Mcnamee is with us to talk about facebooks print they cant lose. No. What would it take to slow these guys down . To be clear, i think from an investor point of view, theyre delivering exactly what investors want and as long as that goes on, the stock is going to be fine to me, the question is the policy one that all of us as citizens that our government has to ask, which is, should there be some limit on what businesses can do when the actions of that business affect public health, democracy, privacy, and competition. And, you know, were wrestling with that right now and the governments getting its gears moving, but it goes slowly and until i guess its going to nee