not how the world works we are in the land of cable giving cable comcast cares comcast cares you know because i mean i mean look no one notices that i'm not i'm not against the idea of a corporation like giving back i'm absolutely but this sort of self-congratulatory all over. the fast that was going on on m.s.n. b.c. is really sad though it's really icky it was like you're not alone reza and you are not alone in feeling that whatever that is glenn greenwald tweeted today he tweeted out saying this is creepy and humiliated and muslim b.z. devotes almost eight minutes of airtime on morning joe to heralding the humanitarianism of its own corporate owner comcast complete with combat cum cast executives touting themselves under the cairo on comcast cares. jones but yet they look good these are the same people by the way that freak out and spend days talking about sinclair media having a must read on there and yes yes same. roundabout terms trying to figure out where of a. journalist to write i wonder where that magical line as for journalism becomes not journalism one of the. jobs of the

not how the world works we are in the end of cable giving cable comcast cares comcast cares you know because i mean i mean look no one notices that i'm not i'm not against the idea of a corporation like giving back i'm absolutely but this sort of self-congratulatory all over. the fast that was going on on m.s.n. b.c. is really sad you know it's really icky it was like you're not alone raz and you're not alone in feeling that way with because glenn greenwald tweeted today he tweeted out saying this is creepy and humiliated and muslim b.z. devotes almost eight minutes of airtime on morning joe to heralding the humanitarianism of its own corporate owner comcast complete with combat cum cast executives touting themselves under the cairo on comcast terrorist. jones but yet the girl group these are the same people by the way that freak out and spend days talking about sinclair media having a must read on there and yes yes same. terms trying to figure out where of a. journalist that was right i wonder where that magical line as for journalism becomes not journalism. jobs of the fairness and

yes comcast cares they do last saturday april twenty first marked the seventeenth annual comcast cares day the annual once a year about the reminds us service slaves and plebian is just how much our friendly neighborhood corporate media conglomerate truly cares about all of us vassals paying for their nice suits and golden parachutes take a listen as comcast employees imus and b c analyst nicole wallace and reverend al sharpton hyped comcast big day of giving while sitting just inches away from their corporate paymaster comcast senior executive vice president david cohn and if you look carefully hawk watchers while conan speaks you can still see the bloody carcass of net neutrality hanging from is to. mark the big event here as we fell a great comcast cares day now in its seventeenth year it is believed to be the nation's largest single day corporate volunteer event says of at his show him here every day this is part of the people in this building and around the cancun as well . all excited about doing would do go to doing twenty four hours this i think that we could bring the world to

gets to the heart of the story in me and mom and comcast cares day comcast cares day comcast cares day the american cable company that's not afraid to blow its own horn or to get its journalists to blow it for their happy comcast cares day it's been almost a year and a half now since the election of donald trump and the opposition democrats still haven't moved on from the defeat of hillary clinton last week the party filed a lawsuit in new york over the hacking and publishing of e-mails from the democratic national committee the d.n.c. in two thousand and sixteen the defendants in the suit or the russian government the trump campaign and wiki leaks the timing with midterm elections about six months away may well be political but suing wiki leaks a news organization for publishing leaked material when it is hardly the only news outlet to do so could set a troubling precedent for press freedom in america. the us media have remained strangely silent on the implications busily obsessing over russian meddling in the election the moller investigation and donald trump's own rhetorical war aga

there is news from comcast comcast formalized its cash offer for sky. the total value of the bid is about $31 billion. comcast also including a number of commitments in the deal including maintaining the annual budget for sky news for ten years at a minimum of 2017 levels, and establishing an editorial board to assure the independence of sky news 21st century fox has been trying to buy the 61% of sky that it doesn't already own. but the attempt has been rebuffed by regulators concerned about fox having too much control over british media this deal comes in -- >> it formalizes what we knew was likely to happen there was still a question mark out there. but now this starts the clock. this begins the race to how does fox come back? >> this is a 16% premium to fox's original bid because disney is in the process of buying fox, does disney make a bid? now we're in this whole new dance. new element of where this all goes >> andrew, you followed these rules closely. the rules in britain are different and unique about how you have to go through with some of thes

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we were out there too in san jose earlier comcast day. we can show you the pictures from earlier today. that's how a team of four. >> that's must be before and after because you were happy. >> well that's the video of during. we have the kids at work. >> oh yeah, and not taking stuff out but putting stuff in. >> look at that bag that they filled. >> that's twin's teem work. >> and they're doing the right thing. >> chris and johnny helping out comcast thursday. it was a nice day. needed the jackets early in the morning and t-shirt weather in the afternoon and back to jacket now. san francisco with that chilly breeze. might see a patch or two of low clouds for morning. oakland buzzing after that no-hitter. deb lin cooling to 60 after a high of 82. those high temperatures you're looking at, similar forecast on the way tomorrow. 62 degrees currently in san jose. 40s and low 50s as we start the morning in the afternoon. 3:00 in the bay, temperatures in low 70s with 80s inland and a mild evening to wrap up tomorrow. daytime highs, low 80s aroun

one is the biggest is comcast. it's a domestic taxpayer and many other reasons. >> olympics and super bowl nbc revenue up 21. >> film and entertainment, though, if they had a couple of big movies, you would have been blown away here. this is the only time i've heard -- >> that's the music whispers. >> maybe there's something you talk about they never tell us. >> music under the whole. >> yeah. that music is being -- >> time to go. >>> when we come back, a lot more on the m & a front. the biggest pharma deal of the year and exclusive with kevin mansell. amazon has a new alexa we'll talk about that and more another look at the premarket. the dow is down 424 points "squawk on the street" continues in a minute. at&t provides edge-to-edge intelligence, covering virtually every part of your manufacturing business. & so this won't happen. because you've made sure this sensor and this machine are integrated. & she can talk to him, & yes... atta, boy. some people assign genders to machines. and you can be sure you won't hav

both fox and comcast are trading up on the day. sky is trading slightly softer much higher than that 12.50 pound bid that has been put through by comcast fox is also benefiting from the fact that sky shares rallied, and they have that 39% already interesting stake in the company. so whatever happens, at least that 39% stake is appreciating in line with appreciation of the sky share price. to talk to us more about this, i'm happy to say paolo pescatore joins us on the line good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so the ft front page says a three-way bidding war is about to start over sky. do you read this as well is this the formal beginning of a bidding war? do you expect to hear back from fox disney in the coming weeks >> for sure. it's quite clear that a bidding war is going to start, and this is great news for sky stockholders >> we're up to 12.50, and perhaps a counter bid coming from fox or disney before we get into that, have you done work on where you see fair value for sky at this time, not taking into consideration the po

part of a 17-year commitment from comcast from comcast cares where thousands of projects have been done. more than 7700 projects by millions of volunteers. the company has donated more than $20 million in grants. they did it with shovels, paint brushes and a little elbow greece. >> it's about regrowth and the strength of the people who live there. i think that's a touch l way to be able to express that. >> reporter: nbc bay area staff, management and onair personalities were among the 300 volunteers who gave up their saturday to pitch in. >> today we're bringing back hope to all of these families that had tough years. >> we hope today's an example for others to come out and help these communities. >> i think it's important for everyone to give back to this community that's been so effected by the fires. >> in santa rosa, volunteers put a fresh coat of paint and did landscaping. they prepared for the graduation ceremony at the football stadium. volunteers, some from as far as away as sacramento planted hundreds of new trees. >> it's exciting, healing more than anything else and i'm grate

look at comcast cares day temperature trend. talk about perfect weather conditions, but also you're going to need the sunscreen. don't leave the house without your sunscreen because by about 11:00 a.m. we'll be in the upper 60s and then by 3:00, we'll be hitting the 80-degree mark so definitely going to be a warm but sunny day, great day to paint, plant trees, all the amazing things that the volunteers do across the board to really benefit some of these schools and help out the community. you know, it's a good day for that. south bay, 49 degrees right now, peninsula, 50 degrees, tri-valley, 45, san francisco, also in the 40s. and overall, we will maintain those dry, warm temperatures all day long and it looks like it might be sticking around for your entire weekend. the reason for that is we've got some high pressure sitting right over the bay area, and we do have a couple of minor changes on the way. i'll get more into detail on that in about 15 minutes but if you can, come join us at comcast care day. >> i'm wishing i didn't b

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however, comcast waived the cancellation fee and took it off his credit report telling us comcast is on a mission to reinvent how we -- we strive to work with our customers to correct the situation promptly and resolve issues to the customer's complete satisfaction. we have earnestly sought to do that in this particular case. our understanding that we took the necessary steps to respond to and fully resolve the concerns that were raised. and it did. comcast came back out and reconnected his internet and matt is back in business. i want to hear from you. my "7 on your side" hotline is open week days from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. telephone number is (415) 954-8151. you can also reach me through my facebook page and on abc7news.com. >> good job. nice work as always. >> thanks. >>> the price of wine is going up around the world. the international organization of vine and wine reports global wine production has dropped mostly because of bad weather. in italy, wholesale wine >> poor placement. we didn't get spencer enough time to get it back to together. >> i will have to start drinking water

d would the comcast bi be very unlikely to hit regulatory snags. comcast and sky, it would be something like 53 million subscribers split across the u.s. and europe. there's a great natural leg which over that -- language overlap in terms of content development across those markets. it would be a real scale opportunity. given what we saw last week with netflix and 100.5 million customers and spending billions of dollars on content, these guys need scale. tom: you go right to the heart of the matter, which is scale, scale, scale. what is the major scale that you see in a comcast-sky merger when i have craig moffett and michael nathanson suggesting this is an act of desperation? where is the synergy? where is the scale? matthew: it's interesting to see $500 million a year of synergy. they say this would typically discount, but you have two businesses now 23 million subscribers and one with 30. it's a doubling of the footprint so that does give them a bigger scale opportunity to invest in content that can be amortized across a much broader customer ba

comcast business offers fast gig-speeds across our network. at&t doesn't. we offer more complete reliability with up to 8 hours of 4g wireless network backup. at&t, no way. we offer 35 voice features and solutions that grow with your business. at&t, not so much. we give you 75 mbps for $59.95. that's more speed than at&t's comparable bundle, for less. call today. >>> there's a very serious health story around the country that doesn't get enough attention with all the political news. an epidemic among middle school and high school students known as vaping. these same kids who would not smoke cigarettes are turning to e cigarettes known as the brand-new jule to vape. it is having serious consequences with regard to addiction to tobacco and nicotine among these kids. cnn's dr. san is jay gun ta has more. >> in millford, connecticut, francis thompson is trying to snuff out a problem that teachers are having across the country. >> they would come in here and you would have four or five kids at a time congregating and they would start to vape. >> it is a trend ma

it's bringing down names like comcast, et cetera. speaking of comcast. >> they are making at&t-time warner's argument before the justice department that we are in such a death spiral here with cord cutting. they're overplaying it, obviously, not quite a death spiral but such massive competition with cord cutting, video on demand that you have to let us merge. they're the reason why the cable companies like at&t, well distribution, at&t has. liz: desperate. >> desperate for content so it can stay alive and innovate in this environment. it's affecting every single one of the media companies and i don't think it's going to bait for a long time. liz: you are focusing on a different angle of the comcast story. comcast getting smacked on the news. >> put in the hostile, put in a -- started a bidding war for sky, plc, the company we want to buy, naming twenty-first century fox, we want to scoop up the remaining part of what we don't own, own all of it so we can sell to disney in that deal. that deal is getting more complicated as it's going

every year, comcast employees and their families come together on comcast cares day to give back. it's a celebration of their year-long commitment to their communities. what do i want to be? i want to be someone who cares. >>> countdown to the midterms. voters go to the polls 198 days from today. no smooth sailing for mitt romney failing to secure the nomination, so he has to run in the june primary. >>> and the latest polling in texas shows problems for senator ted cruz tied with his democratic challenger. and the latest on the betting odds, the republicans are given a 60% chance of controlling the senate. and the democrats have a wedge over winning the house. >>> and the reporter who released the recordings of his interview that he now believes were was donald trump, explains why he thinks the president was so eager to get on the forbes list back in 1984. >> he used the forbes 400 and the statement of inflated as sets to borrow millions and billions of dollars, which he used to build atlantic city and overleveraged himself. i think the reason he's not releasing his tax returns i

como parte del dia de servicio "comcast cares" "dando un porquito.... san jose" en san jose, el equipo de telemundo 48 se unio para darle una nueva capa de pintura a la escuela intermedia agustin boeger.... pero ese fue solo el inicio de una manana de trabajo comunitario... "contento... otra vez" al norte de la bahia, en santa rosa, otra cuadrilla de telemundo48 se unio a colegas de nbc para renovar una de las escuelas de la zona afectada por los incendios del norte de la bahia.... "parte de es... no estan solos" y es quese eels espiritu de comcast y telemundo es momento de conocer el tiempo en la bahia pasemos con lucrecia borchardt ... --- en el futbol mexicano se les acab el sueÑo a los lobos y tuvieron que regresar al descenso y el coliseo de oakland fue testigo del primer juego sin hits del aÑos los detalles en un flash atencion amantes del chocolate! este fin de semana se celebra un festival internacional dedicado al cacao, le diremos donde degustar sus delicias... ---que tal buenas noches la ultima ocasion q2010 hoy recibieron una inyeccion de

however, comcast waived the cancellation fee and took it off his credit report telling us comcast is on a mission to reinvent how we -- we strive to work with our customers to correct the situation promptly and resolve issues to the customer's complete satisfaction. we have earnestly sought to do that in this particular case. our understanding that we took the necessary steps to respond to and fully resolve the concerns that were raised. and it did. comcas came back out and reconnected his internet and matt is back in business. i want to hear from you. my "7 on your side" hotline is open week days from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. telephone number is (415) 954-8151. you can also reach me through my facebook page and on abc7news.com. >> good job. nice work as always. >> thanks. >>> the price of wine is going up around the world. the international organization of vine and wine reports global wine production has dropped mostly because of bad weather. in italy, wholesale wine is up. >> poor placement. we didn't get spencer enough time to get it back to together. >> i will have to start drinking

comcast starts a bidding war with disney and fox for the largest a tv company. today, if finalized a $30 billion all-cash offer, leading -- leaving investors, wondering if they outfoxed. more, a senior deals reporter. know sky pulled its recommendation and withdrew its recommendation for fox's bid on the bid for comcast. where does that leave rupert murdoch and how he maneuvers? >> frustrated is probably the right word. i think this goes back to the end of 2016. murdoch has been waiting to get approval to her the u.k. is taking a tough look at this with the issue of him owning a plurality in media ownership here he already owns a lot of media -- media in the u.k.. i think this decision will come in june and comcast has now come in as you say with a formal offer and trying to get out in front of it. >> this is a premium to fox's bid. we know how much murdoch wants this but the other fact is disney. answer both of those questions. >> you are right the premium is 16% above the original fox offer but the share if you look at them now today, they are trading a full p

comcast also caught in that. they came up well short in video subs even though that's not the key part of the business that concerns people. you're talking about a company, by the way, jim about $13 billion buy backs in the start of 2017 and average prize of $360 a share took their leverage up to 4.2 times that in other words would have been 3.7 and we're buying back stock higher than here. people worry they don't have visibility on the business you know why the proliferation of the ott plat forms and how quickly people are coming off the bundle. >> yeah, david i mean, i think that it's a little disenginous for john legre to say charter is moving in and they'll have an impact. you know our parent company, david. he made a claim that i think bears. comcast has been aggressive in signing up better than at&t which clearly has been the falter in this particular quarter. at&t's top ten worst quarters of earnings i so just question whether they have more state power versus comcast in picking up customers. >> yeah. it's

comcast business outmaneuver. kennedy: dow doesn't like trade wars and there is a good reason. they are from isolationist policies and they never deliver what they promise. when you are nursing a broken hand and restraining order they are less terrifying. after all, those trade deficits won't reconcile themselves. but in the end it becomes a series of regressive taxes. we all know our economy is deeply linked to china's and ex trikaight ourselves would be like wrestling with crazy glue on our fingertips. china is being childish and selfish by stealing our intellectual property. our president needs to tell their president to keep their meat hooks off the digital stakes. there is no sense in tanking the markets and taking them down with a game of chicken that will have predictable results, namely hurting our economy, hastening inflation and punishing lesser earners and pushing them off the trade war doom. this morning on "fox and friends," sarah huckabee sanders was asked about china's counter punch. >> we are in th

comcast business outmaneuver. alix: this is bloomberg daybreak. it feels like markets want to pretend yesterday never happened. secondst start for the quarter since 1929. european stocks lower but also their lows for the session. european equities don't really have that many tech stocks. classes, it is a story similar to what we saw yesterday. yields up by two basis points. you wouldn't have thought you would see yields at 2.7%. you would've thought we would have had the much lower -- had them much lower. the vix a little calmer, but is this the new normal? second day into the quarter and it is already so exciting. here with our "first word news." kailey: president trump threatening to pull out of nafta. according to people familiar with the matter, the white house wants canada and mexico to join a summit in peru. technical talks to hammer out the details will continue. china is warning able to if the u.s. imposes tariffs. become administration plans to impose additional duties on chinese products. china's ambassador says that beijing will respond

comcast runs euro news in europe and has more expertise and synergies. i don't expect major differences between how disney and comcast would run. mark: sky shareholders have been crying for a higher bid from fox, particularly want disney entered the equation. does this pave the way for a higher bid from fox for skype? joe: it seems like this offer today deals with the concerns that people might have had. now it is a question of will they bid higher in a have a definitely seen it. verdicte cma gives a and will the secretary decide? 1 andhe verdict is on may then on mid-june. they are very much expected to. mark: joe will be busy. joe mays, bloomberg media and telecom reporter. it is time for our stock of the hour. note price, it is tesla. shares are higher on first quarter reduction numbers. they grind it out. abigail doolittle joins us. abigail: there was lots of pressure on whether they would be a look to put up a solid model three reduction number. they produce 2020 model 3's, a little less than expected but less bad than feared. they put up more than

comcast is look at the same thing in buying skype overseas. so the world is moving to this concept of self contained or closed systems with captive studio production all the way through customer ownership. not message out all the way through physical pipes. that's a different question but all the way through customer ownership. that is a radically different model than what we have seen and at least in the u.s. market in the past in video. it's funny where fighting over this in at&t-time warner case when, in fact, the world is moving in that direction with or without at&t and time warner where out of time. craig moffett please come back in a few months and update us again. cofounder and senior research analyst at moffett nathanson research. kim hart is the managing editor of axios. this is "the communicators." .. public policy events in washington d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. today a discussion with government officials about u.s. based policy, the growth of the commercial satellite

comcast business outmaneuver. loupe lou president trump securing a new trade deal with south korea and boosting the autoexport and limiting steel. the original trade deal with south korea and creating by former president obama and hillary clinton was disastrous. and the u.s. trade deficit soarred from escape pillion to 23 billion last year. my next guest said the original south korea trade deal was one in the american history. and joining me is a key architect of america first trade policy. peter navarro and director of the council. >> a day for the history books. this is top three worst deals in american history. you have china get in the wto. and three hillary clinton and obama. as you did. we hammered our auto industry. and the president in that campaign renegotiate. and promise made and kecht and history made today. >> lou: and congratulations ever looming. nafta first and foremost. the president fumes when he mentions the term nafta. how close are we and how is establishing the reciprocal trade that the presi

comcast is look at the same thing in buying sky overseas. so the whole world is moving to this concept of self-contained or closed systems with captive studio production all the way through customer ownership. not necessarily all the way through physical pipes. that's a different question but all the way through customer ownership, and that is a radically different model than what we've seen it at least ine u.s. market in the past nvidia. it's funny we are fighting over this in the at&t-time warner case when, in fact, the world is moving in that direction with our without at&t and time warner. >> host: for julie, we're out of time. craig moffett please come back in a few months and update us again. cofounder and senior research analyst at moffett nathanson research. kim hart is the managing editor of axios. this is "the communicators." >> later today on c-span2 a live discussion with former fbi director james comey about his biography, his experiences with president trump, and his book "a higher loyalty." join us live at 7 p.m. eastern here

comcast business outmaneuver. lou: primp today declaring -- trump today declare he stands with our allies. >> there has been nobody tougher to russia with that said, i think i could have a very good relationship with putin, it is possible i won't. you will know about it remember this getting along with russia is a good thing, getting along with china is a good thing, getting alon with other country, is a good thing not bad. lou: joining us dr. going to go. great to have you with us. today heads of baltic states, at white house. it looked as though president was purposefully putting his thumb in the eye of vladimir putin. >> what about collusion? yeah. it warmed my heart as child of parents who escaped the captive nation during revolution of 1956 in budapest to see american president stan next to 3 nato nations that had been denied their e existences by russia, sucked into soviet union in beginning of world wor war ii. and look at what this administration has done. in the last 15 months. this has been the toughest

thirty nine percent and he wants to own more until comcast as in n.b.c. or perhaps your cable company stepped in and one upped his offer so rather than owning lots of sky murdoch could end up owning none of it because it is still with me so with you fox which murdoch owns and agreed to sell disney it share in sky and along with that lots of fox film and t.v. assets which makes disney now a distribution and content player in the u.k. and will result in a bigger library of stuff they show us here at home so it's not a battle of the goliath split they do dance around each other and one that brings up this issue we've talked about it in the past that these big sort of the old standard television networks they've got more competition now from digital for advertising so they need it holy look at things different right they do and the scariest word in their world is programatic selling meaning to me the commercial inventory is now going to be bought and sold on. online in an automated option rather than will mad men and sales reps and all of that so their commer

. >>> comcast has confirmed its $31 billion bid for european pay tv operator skye. has prompted skye to drop its offer from rupert mourdock and fox. they said a comcast/skye get together makes sense. >> love our core businesses and anybody who's viewing this as some diversion from that is not reading us properly in my judgment. we didn't choose to put play or any other asset in play. that event happened around and the question is, do we take a look at it and engage. >> separately, comcast earnings and revenue were out this they topped estimates by the he super ympics and bowl. they rose by 2.5%. comcast is the parentompany of cnbc which produces this program. >>> twittereported the second profitable quarter and blew past analyst expectations, revue and monthly active users. shares were sent down more than 2%. >>> at&t shares dropped after earnings miss and that is where we begin tonight's market focus. after the bell the telecom giant delivered weaker than expected profiten and r even as it added more customers during that period. shares initially fl in after hours

he worked for comcast from 2016-august of 2017. investigators are asking for any other potential victims to come forward. >>> the me too movement is calling out sexual abuse in high profile industries. but the special tonight focused on the hidden harassment happening to working women. we have a success story. a popular bay area restaurant with a plan to help keep the staff safe. >> it's a busy evening at home room mac and cheese in oakland. it's a family restaurant, but that does not mean it does not have adult problems. >> she is tking about the momenthe learned that her female workers were getting unwanted attention. >> he was a father of four kids. they were at the table with him. he reached up the shirt of of on one our hosts and like touched her stomach a told her she was sexy. >> the host told her coworkers what happened. >> they all started to realize, hey, wait a minute, we have had like a gross experience like that. >> but many worry the managers would not take it seriously. >> kayla was a server when the women went to th

and listen, i think comcast obviously wants in this game comcast going after sky. but disney needs this because i think they want controlling snare hulu for whatever reason because i think they want to take on netflix at their own game and they want the integrate espn which has been failing with fox sports which is also not particularly great but i think it will be easier to spin off a combination of espn-fox sports. i think hulu is the reason they want it which is why i think this gets done. >> for more details on this deal and the history of the two companies' fiery pasts, head to cnbc.com >>> still ahead, east course hitting the courts one of the game owners the philadelphia 76ers about what's at stake and just how serious the nanne is about e-sports. i'm melissa lee. you're watching "fast money" on cnbc, first in business and worldwide. in the meantime, here is what is coming up on "fast." >>> morgan stanley says the time may be running out on the nine-year bull market. the man behind the call will explain why, and the one sector to buy right now >>> plus it is

comcast business offers fast gig-speeds across our network. at&t doesn't. we offer more complete reliability with up to 8 hours of 4g wireless network backup. at&t, no way. we offer 35 voice features and solutions that grow with your business. at&t, not so much. we give you 75 mbps for $59.95. that's more speed than at&t's comparable bundle, for less. call today. >> i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. >> two people died and 20 others were hurt. it was a lovely spring day. the driver then fatally shot hips. there are reports he was known to have psychological issues. >> environmental protection agency still that has port of the president of the united states for now. mr. trump said pbeefed up security -- >> the u.s. and north korea holding secret talks ahead of a sum mite between the two countries. it no date has been set. it could be late may. >> far right prime minister set to security his fourth term in office. he transformed his party from liberal to a right wing populist party. the top stories we are following this day, the possible chemical we

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comcast has now bid. pounds.bid $10 75 comcast has come in at 12.50 pounds ramy:. -- 10.75 pounds. comcast has come in at 12.50 pounds. alix: how much would disney what fox without sky? david: we are going to find out. they certainly won't those assets, particularly the movie studio and things. they will he to bulk up for over the top. -- but donger eiger has said he really wants it. that is what disney said he wants. alix: interesting. coming up in the next hour, we talked to principal global ceo.tors' co -- investors' this is bloomberg. ♪ welcome to the xfinity store. i can tell you about... streaming the most free tv shows and movies on the go. yeah, and... xfinity internet. it's so fast! and you can save by... by getting up to 5 mobile lines included. whoa, you're good. i'm just getting started. ♪ simple. easy. awesome. come see how you could save $400 or more a year with xfinity mobile. plus ask how to keep your current phone. visit your local xfinity store today. record m&a in seven years. alix: money poured into credit suisse. the ceo's job is not over. 3% fallout, disse

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good >> remember, comcast is competing to purchase 39% of sky that is not already owned by fox. they also have a bid out there that is lower. comcast has yet to make that an official bid from a 240 or the uk takeover law, but they will soon most likely early may is what i'm hearing. so you have all these different potential areas of competition, but that's the one where they are still competing and the question will be do they come back and will they improve on what we know everything about in terms of the last offer they made which was higher, and how can comcast stock go up in this environment? >> you tell me you tell me. the stocks started to go down when they made the bid for disney to go public. the stock continued to go down when they made the bid for sky when is it going to see some relief >> i don't know. there's this tremendous and let's get it over with, please the relief will be if they lose, i guess and start buying back a lot of stock >> well, listen, if time warner and at&t goes the way many people think it will and we'll see what judge leon says maybe comcast can

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comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. >>> good monday morning. i'm ana cabrera in for john and poppy. the president continues his attacks on daca, on mexico, on democrats, and the filibuster rule, all of it apparently spurred by reports of an immigrant caravan heading to the u.s./mexico border. the president is due to make commen

comcast business outmaneuver. kennedy: steven spielberg's thriller broke the box office record this weekend. put down your xbox controller because this is the "topical storm." topic number one. we kick things off in the state of tennessee where a cop committed a serious moving violation. the easter bunny was forced to switch from hiding eggs to hiding car keys after watching this. i think he justiced himself with his bathing suit covers. i say that with respect to my staff. they gave him a raise. over 170,000 people have watched that police dance-off. but i'm not impressed. i miss the days when the on time a dancing cop showed up at your house is when someone ordered a stripper. topic number two. president trump preside over his second easter egg roll today and the joint was jam packed. kids love the white house easter parties now that they have a first lady that allows them to have candy. i won't say which one bandit, but let's say her name rhymes with michelle obama. there is th the flotus and the potus. the kid

comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. >>> michelle wolfe scorches trump for skipping out on the correspondent dinner. as she did that he was scorching the media. welcome. >> i'm gnnatalie allen. >> and i'm george howell. newsroom starts right now. >>> at 5:01 we start with new developments on the korean peninsula putting forwrd a new time line to denuclearize. it will shut down next month and foreign experts will be invited to north korea to ensure transparency of closure. it is from his landmark summit. north korean leader had a lot more to say. he is literally pushing pyeongchang into the future. also despite all of the threats mr. kim says he is not actually the kind of person to fire nuclear weapons. the overtures come ahead of a diplomatic breakthrough through with u.s. president donald trump. he also says talks with mr. kim could be just weeks away. >> we'll see how it goes. again, whatever happens happens. i may not work out. i leave. so we'll have hopeful a very successful negotiation and we'll be doing the world

comcast business outmaneuver. >> prices touching a 2012 high as there's a bite taken out of global supply. development into to a trade war as china demand -- trade demand powers on. ♪ alix: i am alix steel. welcome to our brand-new show. bloomberg commodities edge. 30 minutes focused on the company's physical assets and the trade behind the smartest voices in the business. let's kick it up with spot on.

comcast business outmaneuver. abigail: you are watching bloomberg best. in the days since president trump announced he would impose tariffs on goods imported from businessonomists and leaders have been waiting the consequences of a possible trade war with china. armadistart with sergio who spoke with us in the china development forum in beijing. >> they start to get concerned. for the time being, of course, the numbers are modest in respect to the impacts. deliberation of these tensions on a bilateral basis, potentially -- that this won't be good for growth or geopolitical reasons. while at this point in time we do not see financial markets being overly impacted by this protectionism, i think if it keeps going on, this could be very disturbing. -- on friday was pretty severe. at the end of the day, you look at, it is always difficult to understand if those corrections are coming as a consequence of the announcement or they are -- as the market develops. for the time being, we will remain constructive on equities and growth. as i said before, we have to pa