Live from new york where business never sleeps, this is quarterback. Squawk box. If you can get mork and mindy from happy days, theres something to be done there for sure. Good morning. Welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im Michelle Carusocabrera along with joe kernen and Steve Leisman. Stock market is closed today for good friday but there will be some trading. Equity futures will be open until 9 15 a. M. Eastern time and you can change on globe x until 11 15 a. M. Brent crude is trading. As for the jobs report forecasters say the economy likely added 248,000 jobs last month. The Unemployment Rate is seen as Holding Steady at 5. 5 and hourly average earnings expected to rise. 2 . So the Labor Department works on good friday. I think a portion does. Here are the other stories were watching at this hour. Iran, the u. S. And other world powers reaching a deal on a framework to curb tehrans nuclear program. This comes after eight days of marathon talks in switzerland. Details to be worked out
Analysis from tv. And tv has many stories on the dramatic front the have some connection to politics. So i think it has a pretty big impact. Of all the programs you produced over the years, which had the most impact on politics, on the popculture scene . I will answer with a movie we distributed. We distributed a movie several years ago called in the loop. By a guy named britishand it was a take on politics. Armando went on to do a beautiful show on hbo called veep. It was the lighter side of politics. I dont know if youve seen it. Im not sure it is the most profound effect but it has caught some attention. Not our show. A wonderful show done by hbo. Watch those that dont everything that you do, what do you do . I work at amc networks. You run it. Yes. I will name some of our shows. I dont want to bore you or anyone watching this. We have mad men was quote and breaking bad and walking dead. We have a show call hell on wetv, which is a channel for women. We have a bunch of shows specifi
Front the have some connection to politics. So i think it has a pretty big impact. Of all the programs you produced over the years, which had the most impact on politics, on the popculture scene . I will answer with a movie we distributed. We distributed a movie several years ago called in the loop. It was done by a guy named armando and it was a british take on politics. Armando went on to do a beautiful show on hbo called veep. It was the lighter side of politics. I dont know if youve seen it. Im not sure it is the most profound effect but it has caught some attention. Not our show. A wonderful show done by hbo. What impact do you think television has on the political system and political culture. For those that dont watch everything that you do, what do you do . I work at amc networks. You run it. Yes. I will name some of our shows. I dont want to bore you or anyone watching this. We have mad men was quote and breaking bad and walking dead. We have a show call hell on wheels, wetv,
Armando went on to do a wonderful show on hbo called veep. It was the lighter side of politics. I dont know if youve seen it. Im not sure it is the most profound effect but it has caught some attention. Not our show. A wonderful show done by hbo. Jeff daniels just won a big award for his work. For those that dont watch everything that you do, what do you do . I work at amc networks. You run it. Yes. I will name some of our shows. I dont want to bore you or anyone watching this. On amc, we have mad men and breaking bad and walking dead. We have a show call killing, hell on wheels. On wetv, which is a channel for women, we have a lot of shows, including a whole bunch specifically targeted for africanamerican women that are quite popular, including something called braxton family values. And ifc, a channel devoted to independent film. We have taken a left turn and make a lot of comedies. One of them is called portlandia. And a couple of other new ones coming up, in addition to comedy bang
I think the the discussions between paul ryan and senator murray are going pretty well. I think there is a real chance that we could have a budget agreement that nobody is in love with, but is at least a step forward in saving money in ways other than these acrossthe board sorts of cuts that come with sequestration. Im hopeful that it will actually happen. If it actually happens, what will it look like . I think the hope is that it will last for a couple of years. That it would include at least some reforms in mandatory spending programs which after all occupies two thirds of the federal budget, and that it would prevent any further cuts in National Security and other discretionary programs. I think it is important for people to remember that defense is 17 of the federal budget, and yet it has had to absorb 50 percent of all of these budget cuts under sequestration, and that is after it was cut substantially by the Obama Administration before that. The cumulative effect of these cuts o