i m brad graham the co-owner of politics and pros along with my wife alyssa muscatine and we have what promises to be a very engaging program for you this evening featuring journalist peter goodman here to talk about his new book davos, man how the billionaires devoured the world. a couple of brief housekeeping notes first though to post a question at any point during the discussion. just click on the q&a icon at the bottom of the screen and in the chat column, you ll find a link for purchasing copies of davos, man. as peter notes in his prologue many people do a lot of ogling at the lives of billionaires. we marvel at their outlandish parties their trophy estates the details of their vastly expensive divorce settlements. we watch fictionalized tv shows based on their excessive lifestyles applaud their philanthropy and occasionally even elect them to public office. peter makes an impassion and detailed case that these richest people in the world have done great harm to the re
Continue in the markets, but a big story involves disney and 21st century fox, a story faber broke at the top of the nine and joins us once again. About one month after we reported on the talks between disney and fox, designed for disney to buy largely all the entertainment assets of 21st century fox, we can tell you now they are closing in on a deal that could be announced as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the situation. That is not to say it is done, but it is to say they have made a great deal of progress talking about a deal for which the consideration will be all disney stock and when you take in the assumption of debt and the equity that will be exchanged for the assets in question, it will amount to more than 60 billion, again according to people familiar with those negotiations. An exact price could not be determined at this point the assets in question include foxs studio, its fx and nat geo cable networks, Regional Sports networks, my first reporting on
As the darker side of hollywood plays out nationally. Hopefully, this will change the way we look at films, and what films actually get made. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the g. O. P. Tax plan moved closer to passage this evening, as some key senate holdouts signaled their support for the revised legislation. Our own Lisa Desjardins joins us now from capitol hill, to walk us through what is in this latest version of the tax bill. So, lisa, i know youve just come from a briefing. This has been breaking late in the
Contributor john bolton again as we wait on the president of the United States and ambassador bolton, America First. What does that mean to you . Well, i think its critical that the president has made the point that you cannot have a strong american position in the World Without a strong domestic economy and i think the reverse is true too without a strong domestic economy you cant project American Power, so its no surprise given the priorities this president has had and i think from what weve been told in advance what the speech and the Broader National Security strategy will lay out will be essentially what he said beginning on the campaign trail and continuing through his statements. Its a policy that looks very much in the mainstream of republican Foreign Policy thinking. Its certainly not isolationist, and it recognizes the principal threats that we face on the strategic level from russia and china, and on the more immediate level from Nuclear Proliferation from the likes of iran
Developments and the likely tax package everyone put the proverbial john hancock on this except the man who counts the most, the president of the United States. The companies are putting the money to work before its in their hot little hands, you heard a lot about that. So is connell mcshane, doing reporting on this and from the folks at wells fargo, planning big things. Reporter thats one of the Companies Making a big move. The bill hasnt been signed into law yet and have a number of Companies Looking to share the wealth. A small sample up on the screen, there have been more that announced but you talk about at t, boeing, comcast, southwest and were outside of wells fargo location here in new york. Theyve all made some sort of announcement what they hope do with the savings that they will have. Theyre not all equal, want to talk about the banks, if you looked at industry, especially the banks that have big operations domestically, wells fargo is an example of that. They pay a relative