This week on press pass, from Political Consulting to political joke writing, the subject nuft book monologue what makes america laugh before bed with john max. Welcome to meet the press. Great to be here. People may not know you had a political career right here in washington worked for a number of Political Consultants and consulting firms, names of people familiar here shapes Carville Paul begala bob shrum, people that appeared on meet the press. How did you go from working on bob caseys campaigns and john glenns campaigns to chief political comic writer for jay leno . It was 1990 paul simon and david doak were doing tv ads for his campaign and he won bush labor secretary. Yes. Afterwards paul won. And i get a call from him. He goes john im doing the gridiron speech. Youre funny, write some jokes. I wrote some jokes, sent them in had a call from Frank Mankiewicz who put it together and he said, youre funny, you ought to do this for a living. Im thinking theyre trying to ease me out
Siemens. Answers. Welcome back to squawk. We want to thank or guest hosts for being here on this postsuper bowl wrapup day. Steve liesman, well see you tomorrow. Join us tomorrow. Squawk on the street starts right now. Good morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im carl quintanilla, with melissa lee, jim cramer. David faber is off. Signs of reemerging political turmoil, both in spain, and in italy making investors a little bit reluctant to press the button for the upside. It comes after the dow did top 14,000 on friday for the first time in more than five years. Look at europe, thats where the storys going to be for most of the morning before we close at 11 30 eastern time. Germany taking it down 1,100 points as well. Asia got action as well as china. Nonmanufacturing came in better than expected. Clearly the story is going to be in europe for most of the morning. Weve certainly seen a flight to safety take place this morning, as weve seen the bond yields, particularly the spanish 1
The government. Not talking about growth in the government, right . Not to create more conflict between you two. There are two ways to two kinds of people in the world. Thats why im on this side of the table, joe, with you. Thinking about it. In washington right now, they i would say there are some people that are more interested in growth in the government than growth in the private sector. Well, look, again, im not a politician, but i want to focus on good, economic growth. Good Business Growth and how do we get back to the days that we enjoyed . Bob, thank you so much for being here. We hope to see you again soon. Thank you. Ive had a great time. Great visiting with you. Does it for us today. Now, its time for squawk on the street. Know that theme music any night, say goodbye to liz you jack and the crew on 30 rock. Im carl can teen nia, melissa lee, david faber, jim cramer. Chicago pmi on the way. Facebook earns, by most accounts, were pretty impressive. Mobile ad revenue, two time
Globetrotting cbs correspondent. The we have some sad news tonight from within our cbs news family. Our 60 minutes colleague bob simon, was killed this evening. But its jon stewart who may have had the greatest impact on the actual news business. This after 16 years of skewering politicians and pundits like, well, me. Its made the president some fierce adversaries, one in particular. If youve lost jon stewart youre in trouble. Even jon stewart this week taking shots at obamacare. What impact does that have on the whole public dialogue . What impact does me have on the public dialogue . Well look at all these stories with guests, including piers morgan and former abc news president david westin. President obama taking flak for saying the media are exaggerating the threat of terrorism. You know, whats the famous saying about local newscasts right . If it bleeds, it leads, right . The president have a point or is he shifting the blame as he seeks new war powers from congress. Plus why did
Berlin this is the day. Were going to come up. With a phone call to be ready for there will be any delays we are determined to ensure that meet legal types of it but its my job to make sure the country is ready what we want to do is to make it absolutely clear that the strong eat the good it did its going to get we drilled agreement is deep its got to get you right we sets up the structures in company type of charge off creation we can get a new deal where new deal then we must be prepared to keep the country the fidelity that it needs to do we want a good deal with friends and partners it must apologise the undemocratic stuff do not miss the judge you get equal or european friends. Also coming up the u. S. President says the city of baltimore is a rat infested place no human being would want to live in well that is not sitting well with the city of baltimore and the people who love it. He attacks everybody i know donald trump but he hasnt put take in the venom for blacks and people of