Roadster. And the courting of 21st century fox. More potential buyers for parts of that company emerge the fate of the company and what it means for overall media and shares of cisco having a great week so far. Chuck robins joins us on set in a cnbc exclusive. We start this morning with the latest potential bidders for assets of fox that include its studio, its ownership of sky, star, fx, the National Geographic channel, Regional Sports network, i could go on and on ownership of hulu, comcast our Parent Company the latest company to be in talks with fox as i reported later last night as we reported yesterday at cnbc as well for those assets in what is described by people close to the situation as an all stock deal that would in Effect Exchange comcast shares for the assets in question giving comcast potentially a much larger international component, certainly what is described as a whole if you want to think of it that way in the companys current construction largely a domestic company
Looking quite strong, up over 1 this morning same thing with the shanghai composite. Then european equities right now are also in the green. The cac ass off, ftses off i spoke too soon i looked at the ftse beforehand. The ftse is up, the dax is up. Everything else is down just marginally well, here are the big stories were watching for you today. We are continuing to follow a developing story out of Southern California new evacuations have been ordered as a string of massive wildfires continue to grow the thomas fire, the biggest in the area, still on the move. Officials say the blaze is just 10 contained. Its already burned more than 360 square miles of land we will continue to follow this developing story, bring you any updates and developments as we get them. On this weeks economic agenda, tomorrow, look for the november Producer Price index. The fed also kicks off a twoday meeting. On wednesday well get cpi as well as the fed decision this latest Economic Forecast and Janet Yellens
Doing to help change the workplace. And the author of why we sleep is in studio 57 looking at new research on how sleep impacts our memory. But we begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We want to give you, the American People, a giant tax cut for christmas. And when i say giant, i mean giant. Republicans on the verge of tax reform. This is bigger than the reagan 86 tax reform which was done the year got my drivers license. Well, theres only one bit of good news theyre rushing it through. The longer they take on it, the worse it gets. In this race weve not received the final count. Moore still has not conceded in the Alabama Senate race. To do the right thing, roy, its time that we heal. Disney plans to buy a huge piece of 21st century fox. That deal is worth more than 52 billion. Tavis smiley, suspended by pbs over allegations of sexual misconduct. I intend to fight back. Blame canada for a major storm system with snow and frigid conditions. From michigan in
Thec implementation. Reporter they absolutely nailed it with this second time frame of legislation on taxes to the president s desk by christmas. There had been a couple different scenarios though over the last week as to when the president would actually sign the bill, and one of those options was that he might wait until january, until the Congress Gets back here, and that they would have some sort of celebration to start the year off with a bang. As we saw within the last hour inside the oval office. He explained it by saying he wanted to keep that promise of tax legs signed by christmas. Tax legislation signed by christmas. I am keeping my promise, i am signing it before christmas. I said that the bill would be on my desk before christmas, and you are holding me literally to that. So we did a rush job today. Its not fancy. Reporter now, over the last couple of days or so the president has touted the handful or so of major corporations that have said they will now, because of this
Nation in seventy three years. And those are the headlines stay with us im going to have more news for you in half an hour coming up next though its up front thanks for watching. His has been a year of couldnt travel see him crises of breaking rules and telling lies so how do you cover how do you hold to account a president as unique as donald trump and from special. Promoting us near nazis retreating british neo fascists peddling conspiracy theories and brazen lies defending alleged child sex abuse and threatening a nuclear war with north korea there has never been a president of the United States quite like donald trump so how do you cover President Trump and how is he survived his first year in office against all odds in this up from special im joined from chicago by gwenda blair a longtime trump biographer from milwaukee by Charles Sykes a former conservative radio talk show host and author of how the right lost its mind and here in the studio by jane coast and senior politics repo