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who is used to high expectations, you might not be comfortable here. betty: i m betty liu. welcome to titans at the table. charlie ergen has always been something of a fearless renegade. he led a group that created echostar in the 1980 s and decade. in the next in the process, he would become one of the richest men in america, worth nearly $20 billion. he stepped out of the spotlight in 2011 and handed the ceo reins to joe clinton. he is back in the hot seat. with the satellite tv business in its early days, he wants to get the forefront of this change by creating a new over the top product called sling tv and buying up the billions of dollars worth of wireless assets. assets he says can be used to build a legitimate competitor to at&t and verizon. when we first sat down for interview, i asked ergen to describe this new frontier. charlie: now we are in another transformation. it has gone about in two places. one is tv itself is transforming. people are looking for mo ....
kay: this is the new economy, and we are all going to love it if we just learned to participate in it. this year, questions on over the clintons of how they fund the initiative. bill clinton addressed these questions head with bloombergs betty liu. betty: i want to get to some of the commitments you are excited to talk about today, that i also want to talk about some of the topics that have overshadowed some of the good work that cgi has done. you have something like 200,000 plus sponsors that have supported cgi since 2001. a few of them have begun to reassess their sponsorship of the clinton global initiative. exxon mobil said they will not sponsor you this year. is this because of the funding controversy? mr. clinton: i think they don t want to be involved in politics. they don t think we were ever political. there has never been a foundation with a more prominent political person involved. i have had george and laura bush here, mitt romney, john mccain and sarah pa ....
dishes it out on this addition of titans at the table. hello. welcome to titans at the table. charlie ergen has always been something of a fearless renegade. ergen led a group in the 1980 s and started dish in the next decade. in the process, he has become one of the richest men in america, worth nearly $20 billion. he stepped out of the spotlight in 2011 and handed the ceo reins to joe clinton. he is back in the hot seat. with the satellite tv business in its early days, he wants to get the forefront of this change by creating a new over the top product called sling tv and buying up the billions of dollars worth of wireless assets. assets he says can be used to build a legitimate competitor to at&t and verizon. when we first sat down for interview, i asked ergen to describe this new frontier. charlie: now we are in another transformation. it has gone about in two places. one is tv itself is transforming. people are looking for more of what they want to watch. they ....
again. bob iger joins us in a few moments. apple looks set to continue. but merrill lynch adding insult to injury. and tonight tesla and fitbit coming out. but first up disney reported better than expected earnings. but they were hurt by slowed growth at the international theme parks but still up more than 20% so far this year. and we ll have an exclusive interview with bob iger in just a few moments from now. jim, you were up very early reading through the quarter, reading transcripts, i assume. you said today is the bear s day. well, i think a lot of it is self-inflicted pi disney. they gave a prediction which was a high single digit projection for cable. it s about 42% of their business and they missed the projection. when you set a benchmark and you underperform, even if it s not as important as other things, you have to take the pain. and they re getting punished for that. but let s find out. i mean, he certainly knows more. and for joining us is bob iger, le ....
it is a big day for the bank of england governor mark carney. a report is starting less than an hour from now. topping lists the banks interest rates and new forecast on the agenda. republican presidential candidates will debate for the first time tonight at 9:00 eastern on national television, and 9 of them will be trying to stop donald trump from stealing the spotlight. he is dominating polls heading into the debate on fox. one republican strategists said survivalists must tread lightly. time,has a set amount of six and half, eight minutes to engage in the audience something about you, your policy, and why you watch to be the next president of the united states and why we should vote for you. to waste time going after trump that will burn up a lot of those minutes. at the same time, if he goes after you, you cannot allow that to stand. you can demonstrate to republican voters he will be a candidate who fight back. vonnie: the second candidate who did not hold hig ....