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>> thank you. dierdre: foxbusiness.com, with latest what glass door is doing to give you more information about perspective employers. thank you very much, for joining us on risk and reward. it is now time for "money" to start. melissa francis. melissa: you bet it is. let's not make a deal. $100 billion of deals collapsing overnight, sparking new concern about the end to the m&a boom. record less of anxiety about the future of america. nearly 3/4 of adults say we're on the wrong track and they're pointing the blame directly at washington. a germ zapping technology that could be just the ticket to wiping out ebola would be here in studio. we'll show you exactly how it works. unbelievably cool airport perks to make your next flight a lot more tolerable. even when they say it is not, it is always about money. melissa: all right, our top
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story today, no deal indeed. fox business's parent company, twenty-first century fox ditching its efforts to take over time warner after its $80 billion bid was rejected last month. shares of time warner, not doing so well on the news while fox is up on the day. is it a done deal? or is this just a clever negotiating tactic? joining me now, fox business senior correspondent charlie gasparino. we also have our very own david asman and james freeman from "the wall street journal." all-star cast here. charlie, what do you think? >> i think i might get fired after this segment. >> you say that every time you talk about us. >> about this. melissa: got to go with him, i got to tell you. >> if you rewind the videotape when i was right before i got thrown out of sun valley, i reported that mr. murdoch may be interested in bidding on this but a lot of bankers were dubious that he would, that he would stick it out for the long haul. i think that's the issue here. that time warner is so adamant not selling right now and
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selling for a price that basically more than we can afford without borrowing a lot of money. melissa: not dumb enough to get whipped up into deal momentum? >> bewkes, the ceo of time warner, knows he has got three potential bids out there from someplace in silicon valley that can pay cash and probably pay $100 a share. >> how much will the shareholders take? they see the stock value going down? are they getting mad at mr. buchanon kest. >> what is the stock right now? >> at least the stock, he does not have $100 billion. >> hold on a second -- >> this stock has not tanked. it has gone down. >> but not at 85. not at 85. >> 76. >> that is not at 85. that is the point. if it goes down, if it goes below0, don't you think stockholders will get pretty pissed? >> that's. >> all right. melissa: speaking of no deal, sprint calling off attempts to merge with t-mobile in wake of stiff opposition from regulators. newly named ceo marcus cloire
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maybe could help the turn the struggling carrier around. what do you think. >> interesting how many parties are at play, the united states government in the form of the fcc and justice department are trying to decide how many carriers will be u.s. based. everybody, it is a part of everybody else these days, particularly in the telecom business. trying to separate out american and certain amount for americans as fcc is doing i think is included crouse attempt at overregulation -- ludicrous. melissa: steve, get in there. >> t-mobile is two-time losers. they said no to the at&t buy and now sprint thing. time for washington get out of the lay and let markets work. >> they're getting more in the way. >> i would like to make a macrostatement about markets. melissa: okay. >> we were talking about this earlier, back in the late 1980s when deals would blow up, markets would crash. you have to admit, federal government may be totally dysfunctional, our budget may be
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dysfunctional and corporate america is not. two deals cratered, too time warner deal. >> that's a good point. 1989 we saw major deal go down. as a result the market tanked big-time. it didn't happen this time. >> well, are they adapting or is this easy money from the fed maintaining an artificially high level? >> our corporations are leveraged? are people doing leveraged buyouts? i don't think so. i think companies learned from the past. >> let's hope government stays dysfunctional and can't get too involved. melissa: aol making a comeback. the has-been internet giant crushes wall street expectations with a solid earnings report, reporting 12% boost in revenue versus a year ago. not crushing it though. flip side of the coin. yahoo!, whose revenue is down 3% from the same time period. sew you get aol out there. they come in, do a great job, making yahoo! and flashy she yo -- >> aol, so many people wrote them off as dead couple years
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ago. they came back. interesting thing in their report, 60% jump in advertising revenue in the third quarter. 60%, from a company that most people thought was outdated. melissa: was it -- >> off a low base but at same point they have gotten in a lot of businesses they haven't been before and very successfully. >> and out of some businesses they blew up in. remember that, local news -- >> patch. >> patch didn't work out. that is off the books. >> i kind of liked the idea. they're also, they're still getting surprising amount of money from subscriptions. you think of internet access services -- melissa: that blose my mind. that blows my mind. that helps. ceo, tim arm strong, gotten more time that marisa mayer has to turn things around. looking at "huffington post" by was expensive but seems to work out. >> has it been working? >> that hasn't worked out, huff
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post. what made the money, what made the money -- >> the investors -- >> they acquired adapt tv a video advertising platform in 2013. costs $400 million. that is huge deal, very good deal because it is bringing in tons of revenue. "huffington post," forget about it. melissa: i love that you will love. uber could be getting cheaper. you could have used uber. >> there was traffic. didn't matter if there was uber there or not. melissa: announcing service announcing uber pool, riders in the same direction can essentially double up. i like this. can you see photo of person doubling up with beforehand? can you tell me what the person smells like? that is what i like to know. maybe partner with eharmony and partner with a new boss. >> you go to the train station, you have to double up with somebody to get to -- >> wait a minute. what trouble are you going to have? melissa: oh, my godness.
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somebody talk quickly. anyone. >> investment, they have defensible intellectual property but, i really admire the way this company moves so much quicker than not just big companies obviously than washington. going into new markets. i wish regulators, local taxi commissions would give them a break. >> would you share a cab with somebody? >> i would? >> i would. melissa: happens all the time. >> washington, d.c. you do share cabs with people. get discount as a result. i think you should do that. >> exciting thing when driverless cars come. then you may never need to own a car again. melissa: there you go. finally, pizza at the push of a button. push for pizza is a new app, i can not wait to try, basically all you need is one click on your smartphone and hot, delicious steamy pizza shows up right up at your door. >> how do you know it is delicious? melissa: because you're ordering repeatedly. if it wasn't delicious originally -- >> you get to pick wherever. melissa: no choice.
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this is like yo. like the single message app but pizza. >> a play on how lazy we all become. melissa: you know who is making it, no? >> play on the fact that people can't pick up a phone and order pizza? that is how lazy? the kids who thought up the idea are on the site because they know how lazy their fellow kids. melissa: late night, trying to get pizza. >> or too drunk or stoned? melissa: i think that was implied. i'm not sure we needed to lay that out for the audience. it is right there i'm afraid when i get home from work, 15 pizza boxes,he door. my kids will push it a zillion times. thanks guys. that was a lot of fun. stephen colbert from comedian to critic. you don't won't believe what he said to hillary clinton about her new book. listening to fitty sent may make you a better employ yee. -- employee. listen up. ♪
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melissa: we want to give you a quick look at the dow right now because it just moved into negative territory. we have been seeing a ton of volatility today.
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and you can see there now,down, i'm sorry, ton of volatility over past couple days. that's why we're keeping eye on this we have gone back and forth into positive-negative territory but here we are negative. nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange with more on this one. what is the tone down there, nicole? >> you're right about today and what we've seen over past few weeks, volatility. this morning we were down 57 points. then we were up 60 points. here we are at the flat line. so there is certainly this tepid tone on wall street. it's a good way to say it. ge, proctor & gamble are two winners on the dow. ii want to take a look also at macy's today. see how macy's is faring. morgan stanley giving it some really great comments, calling it the best idea that they have, particularly in the department store universe. they said, that it is undervalued. they put a new price target of 66 bucks. and they gave a lot of reasons as to why they see growth for this company. it is up 2.6% right now. back to you. melissa: thanks so much. distress by the economy and
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disillusioned with our political leaders, a new poll from nb c&w sj, finds, 64% of the americans are satisfied with the current state of u.s. economy while president obama's approval rating plummeted to a all-time low of 40%. with me now the heritage foundation steve moore. also a fox news contributor. we have charlie gasparino and david asman with us. of steve, let me start with you. what is your reaction to that? >> there is this divide what everyone is saying in washington and wall street how wonderful the economy is. remember last week, melissa, president obama was practically doing cartwheels how great the economy is. you know what? the american people are not buying it. they're not buying statistics. maybe they're wrong, maybe they're right and not feeling in their pocketbook. the average middle income family not regained the income they lost in the recession that started 60 years ago. melissa: david asman, he goes out there, the president all the time, there is not single metric which i you can't say we're not
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financially better off when i took office. people con front with stats and median income and it is lower, he continues to say it. i wonder if people start believing it? >> no. the good news he pronounces is contradicted by the life they are living, whether it is their income, which is less than it used to be, the amount of stuff they can buy. they can buy apple computer for a lot less but have to pay a lot more for food. like me, they have their 20-something-year-olds living with them. not that there is anything wrong with that. i love my daughter. i'm sure people love their kids at home. kids want to be free like i was in their 20s. they can't do that anymore. the more government involved in the economy, less freedom we have, less enjoyable life. happiness is the past declaration of independence. the less happy we are as a nation. >> i would say this. what is good about this poll, i mean the fact that it is happen something not good, that people are feeling worse but what is good about this poll, we have not sunk into this sort of orwellian abyss right now, the
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country hasn't, just believes everything that the mainstream media and the obama says from the bully pulpit. >> thank, goodness. >> people are still independent thinkers. they're still degree of reality here. melissa: yeah. >> thank god for fox news and fox business. let me tell you. >> i second that motion. >> charlie, when you have three out of four americans who think the future is looking bleaker in the future, that is a big, big -- >> they're not, but you know, they're not buying the propaganda. that is the good part. >> i agree with you. melissa: can not feel confident in the life for their children's generation. >> they don't listen to the media and don't listen to washington. >> hopefully, hopefully people will vote according to the way they feel. >> exactly. >> and vote for people less interested in getting government involved in every aspect of their lives. melissa: speaking of government, walgreen stock absolutely plummeting after the company opted against moving its headquarters overseas for tax purposes. the ceo, greg wallison, admitted
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public pressure did factor into his decision. this as the president saying he could move for executive action against companies who are trying to move overseas. >> wow. melissa: in order to achieve their fiduciary responsibility to shareholders of paying lower taxes. go ahead. >> i just wrote a column on this. this is very dangerous stuff going on in washington. this kind of bullying and threatening, using government power to threaten companies and to force them into doing things that are not in the interest of their shareholders. you had dick durbin basically telling ceo of walgreens, you have a nice store here. it would be, it would be a shame if somebody burned it down. i didn't say that. he said look, would be a shame if customers didn't come here or didn't get the medicare or medicaid contracts. i find this to be very, very threatening, to our free market system that businesses are telling, being told by politicians how to run their business. >> they're not quite passing a law but getting really close to, i mean -- >> they don't have to pass the
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law. president just uses his pen. >> exactly. >> if they go that extra step where they start pushing these businesses, i mean, i'm going to say the word, this is fascism. >> yes, exactly. >> facism is government controlling private business. i'm not saying fascist state. don't misquote me, media matters. we're entering the point where government starts controlling large business what they do that is facism. >> president obama is calling what companies are doing, gaming the system. the system happens to be the highest corporate tax rate in the world. the only way they can make a profit is bring doing things like locating where taxes are lower. why not lower taxes, keep companies here. melissa: and jobs here. >> everybody would be happy. >> that would be more patriotic. melissa: i am the host hang on. hillary clinton making -- >> exercising executive power. >> right. melissa: on "the colbert report" to engage in a little name dropping competition.
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>> i know paul mccartney. [laughter] >> i negotiated negotiated withd karzai. >> i shared an office with steve carell. [laughing] >> i held high level talks with chinese state counselor. >> well, now you're just making words up. [laughter] >> i will have you know, madam, i once did a entire show with president bill clinton. melissa: how many times you think they rehearsed that? >> disgusting campaign commercial, isn't it? melissa: you know they rehearsed bits to go on comedy shows is how politicians get rolling these days. >> look like a campaign commercial. >> of course it is. >> anytime anybody is on that show it is campaign commercial. >> don't have conservatives on the show? >> will people vote on basis how she does on basis of how she does on coal behavior, secretary of state, russia, benghazi? melissa: she has a likability
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problem. she is not likeable. she has never been likeable. this has always been her challenge. you may think he is smart. you may think she is experienced. that she is capable. that shoe woe make a great president but always falls short when it comes to be relatable and likeable. that is what that is all about. >> why is steve colbert making her more likeable. >> he is progressive. he wants to help the cause. melissa: because he is in business and thought it would be good for ratings. we're all in the same business. >> you're right, in washington, d.c., she has the reputation as the ice queen. in fact she is known that way around the country. i got to say this though. i'm much more impressed knowing paul mccartney than karzai. melissa: thanks, guys. that was fun. >> okay. melissa: whether on wall street or main street, here is making and losing money today, anyone with shares of groupon. shares of daily deal site still tanking after horrendous earnings report. poor guidance, smaller commissions, much bigger loss sent the stock tumbling, down
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14%. that is a huge headache for eccentric founder, andrew mason who has 19 million shares in groupon. meaning he lost 20 million bucks just today alone. looks like he will need a few dinner deals himself. also losing a ton of cash, microsoft. a new report suggests it has lost a whopping $1.7 billion from its surface tablet. that is from two years of lackluster sales. come came from massive writeoffs for the surface mini which didn't hit the shelves despite being market ready. making cash, wnba all-star, becky hammond is set to become the first female assistant in nba history after being hired by the san antonio spurs. very cool. containing the outbreak. how one robot promises to eradicate the world's super bugs with one zap. sound like science fiction. we have it here on set. that is coming up next. plus calling your own shots.
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it has all sorts of sensors to make sure nobody is in the room. it will automatically rise up and start to pus. here in the studio we can have it rise up without the pulse. melissa: let's seeing the rise up. while you're doing that, what is value of being a roy bottom as just being a cleaning machine you send around the hospital? >> last 40 years, hospitals use mops and bleach and everything else in order to clean hospital room. this is first time they have something else they can use that goes way beyond that. it gets it simply more disinfected. and for the first time they're able to stop these killer super bugs otherwise infecting patients. melissa: can you make it rise up? >> i can. reach over here. melissa: one of reasons why i imagine it is good it is in a robot, has to be in a room where people aren't, with what it is doing is hazardous to human health while it is doing it, is that right? >> it would give you a sunburn. you generally don't want that.
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it is rising up. it exposes column. melissa: what is inside the column. >> it is xenon gas. it is inert gas. completely non-toxic. when you pulse at high power, it is 25 times power brighter than sunlight. it disables dna all pathogens. ebola, everybody is concerned about, gone. 90 seconds. spores? four minutes. melissa: how much does machine cost? >> the machine costs $104,000. the real way to think about it it is about a dollar per patient day. so $3 per patient room. melissa: these are already around the country, right? how many are out there? >> they're in 250 hospitals, leading institutions, md dickint of mass general system, ucla, you name it they have have it. melissa: does somebody else make something like this? do you have competition. >> no we have no competition
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this is the only pulse xenon combination. melissa: you see more interest since ebola. >> absolutely, 1.7 million get sick. this is a big deal. thank you so much for bringing this in and showing it to us. >> my pleasure. melissa: real interesting stuff. sounding the alarm. tensions flair up across the globe. we'll tell you why it is time to take notice. plus no stopping him. elon musk big win in china may have sealed his fate as most successful entrepreneur alive. "piles of money." you can hear it cleaning. very clean studio coming up. ♪ [ male announcer ] it's one of the most amazing things we build and it doesn't even fly. we build it in classrooms and exhibit halls, mentoring tomorrow's innovators. we build it raising roofs, preserving habitats and serving america's veterans.
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>> nato sounding the alarm about a russian ground invasion of ukraine. the group confirming 20,000
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russian troops currently at the ukraine border. year senior naval analyst at the institute for the study of work chris harbor. how serious is this getting? >> it is getting worse by the day. when we see russia has novacek on its ambitions nato is not a credible counterweight to russia. in the u.s. strategic withdrawal from the middle east, did not cause this problem in the ukraine but has emboldened vladimir putin in his military adventurism in eastern ukraine. melissa: there was a step up in sanctions and then his response to say he would no longer import food or agricultural products, they're putting sanctions in place. does it mean they're working, not working? >> the history of sanctions is one string of failure unbroken by success. insignificant consequential strategic effect, look at north
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korea, cuba, iraq from 1991-2003 in the no-fly zone nobody cares when we do this. especially not vladimir putin who has natural resources at his beck and call and a weak western and central europe dependent upon those natural resources from russia. maria: what should the u.s. do from here? >> a little like saying what should we do now that the barn door is open. melissa: what do we do now? >> we increase sanctions that put pressure on vladimir putin but it is not consequential, two things we could do that would put consequential pressure on russia is give ukrainian government access to military equipment from the united states, increase nato presence along western frontier with russia and increase u.s. naval deployment to the black sea. we use to the navy ships in the black sea all the time during the cold war. is an international navigable waterway, get up in there and
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show we are serious about guarding international borders. melissa: more and more people say the world is falling apart. look at everything happening in the middle east, nobody has even mentions assad in so long, all these different situations of gotten so far out of control what does it mean in the long run? >> thomas hobbes was right when he said the natural state of maine is british, nasty and short. in the absence of u.s. intervention this is the way the world looks. overseeing across the board, a u.s. strategic withdrawal from the middle east and the world stage overall. there are economic reasons for that. some viewers may agree with that. what is beyond dispute is when the u.s. is not engaged in strategically forward deployed all these problems tend to get bigger, not smaller. point your point about assad this is the best thing that could happen for him.
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he has the situation in iraq, that is the best thing that could happen because he is not paying attention. melissa: thank you so much. stabilizing on wall street, indigenes helping drive small gains on the dow. let's check with the pits of the cme, on what is your take on today's tone? >> we definitely had much more concerned this morning when the market opened. overnight we saw s&p 500 futures starting to test and a key technical level around 1900. when u.s. markets open we saw your reverse and come of the lows and we saw a big move irony isn't the. we are back in negative territory after trading much higher but we are seeing names that drove the sell-off yesterday like the energy space, big cat energy like exxon finding would leave today and buyers coming in. with the vix falling to 16 and volatility rises, downside protection talks about it is cheap on a relative basis.
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i believe this is a move lowers that will send us into a correction territory. you can buy the downside protection for relatively cheap price. melissa: do you believe we are moving to the downside from here? >> today's close will be crucial. we tested the big time support level and found a lot of buyers but the big reversal we're putting into the downside is concerning. if we hold a round unchanged for today that is a good sign for markets but if we end markedly lower i think it could be more of follow through tomorrow. melissa: thank you so much. workers have had enough horrible bosses. 40% of employees hope to start their own business. michael's got better watch his back. living on up for air. is bonds of the's bid for the buffalo bills giving sports a bad name? at the end of the day it is all about money.
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melissa: i am melissa frances with your fox business brief. avalanche samsung called a truce in their ongoing battle over patents. the two tech giant agreed to dismiss all disputes between them in ports outside the u.s.. apple will move forward with its high-profile cases here at home. russian criminals i said to
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still 1.2 billion passwords. what could be one of the largest data breaches in history, the hack is said to improve credentials from 420,000 websites including some big-name brands. shares of activevision blizzard surging after new optimism on wall street. barkley's raised its price target for the video game after its sales and profits topped estimates for the second quarter. that is the latest from the fox business network giving you the power to prosper. >> what super poligrip does for me is it keeps the food out.
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melissa: breaking news, sprint may be passing, you might be interested in t mobile. dished chairman charles riordan says it makes sense for the satellite operator to consider the wireless carrier. little reaction in t mobile shares which have been getting hammered all day. in the u.s. every corner of the globe money flying around world starting in china where elon musk and tesla are said to have resolved a huge trademark dispute. the electric carmaker was unable to fully expand in the country because a local businessman has already taken the tesla name back in 2006. elon musk says the guy agreed to cancel all claims for no cost to the company. elon musk will have access to the billion people that make of the world's biggest auto market.
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to italy, which has fallen back into recession yet again. this is the third time the nation has suffered a recession since 2008. it is italy's worst economic slump since the second world war. experts are pleading with the government to step up the pace of economic reforms. landing in japan, selfy mania has reached new heights with the launch of a selfy stamp, a tripod like pol pot and the everywhere. everywhere there is one of these things complete with specialty made ledges for your smart phone, use his position the device, set the timer and snap it. so fantastic i can hardly contain myself. americans tired of working for the man and ready to be their own boss. recent survey finds 30% of employees hope to own businesses and the younger you are, the more you want to escape the 9-5 grind. jonathan honig, fox news contributor and james freeman
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with us with a diversified financial domenic, i will start with you. does it surprise you or tell you the american spirit is alive and well, everyone wants to own their own business? >> that signal is sending americans are the ones that invented the phrase to make money. we always understood here that money doesn't exist, it had to be created, had to be produced and that is why the entrepreneurial american creative interest in making a profit and building a business is simply part of the american fabric. here and only here can you have an idea in the dorm room and six years later be in the top of the fortune 500 like facebook. that is part of the dream. melissa: you want to open a subway, chick fil-a, just get out -- >> it is write in wheel house. seven of ten of our top wealthiest clients are entrepreneurs, all started a business from scratch but nothing sexy, no google, no iphone, these are people who own
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contracting companies, machine shops, they own restaurants, these are everyday businesses, they started from scratch, worked 60, 80 hours a week and are multimillionaires. melissa: it saddens me to bring you this news but your love of the notorious big maybe holding you back. listening to big could stunt your productivity. hard to believe. james freeman, does this crush you? i feel like you're the kind of guy who would listen to this. you don't want to smoke a blunt, you get fired up. you want to go out and work. >> if i was working i don't think this would be my call. my call would be jamie catch, something like -- >> our floor manager? >> the club fires you. if you look at this list absolutely. it gets me working twice as fast. what do you think?
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>> full disclosure we play the tango in our office. it steps that way and we get a lot of work done. >> you strike me as though we will rock you kind of guy. >> you need to think in order to think. you need to focus. it is especially distracting and to your point, eventually distracting as well. melissa: we will leave it there. looking ahead to the next hour, a free view of what is coming. she is a good buddy of mine. i have to say is this. it was shocking to my team on the 3:00 show. when we looked at this and it said we have an analyst who is in essence saying what happened yesterday where sprint and t mobile, that potential plan broke up and time warner and fox blew up go down as the
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darkest day in m&a history, we are looking at both but t mobile and of course print, we are bringing in the former sprint ceo who ran the company from 1985 all the way to 2003. the former chair and ceo of sprint, what does he think about the breakup of this potential plan? does that hurt consumers or help consumers? his perspective is important. we have some very interesting perspectives on august things, vitamin water, the guy who was the marketing push behind that is joining us with his next big thing. have you heard about this? the ceo and founder of idea merchants has 0-touch when it comes to these things, it may be the next thing. >> i will drop by your green
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room for a sample. now for probably the silliest thing we will show you today. i am not even going to read the rest of it. an english surfer was filming himself catching waves when he was paid a visit by curious seal. this is real. the seal hop on the board and tried to show the guy how it was done. he is a little wobbly at first and then find its fleet or its flippers as we might say. lady gaga declares this the cutest thing she has ever seen. to you disagree? >> she is no will read of win. this could be a heartwarming animated fix for the whole family. i love business possibilities. this is a big opportunity. melissa: pita is watching this and frowning. they are sure there's a trick of foot. do you think it is real? >> no animals were harmed in the
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filming of this video. >> a few more seconds. if you are bored at the airport why not take advantage of something. we will tell you about cool ways to keep yourself occupy while you wait at the gate and it doesn't call for hitting the food court. would you rather have coffee or aliens? one prominent scientist says extraterrestrial life is only as far away as your morning lost a. this is a serious story. don't turn away. you can never have too much money or outer space aliens. i'm only in my 60's.
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melissa: airlines are actively trying to squeeze every penny of u.s. use it for hours to finally board your already delayed flight. with increased fees and decrease seat size, meals being taken away and outrageously high air fares, flight is not a first-rate experience right now. airports themselves trying to ease the e the asian pain, offering perks to help pacify their passengers. consultants oppenheimer joins me now. thank you for joining me. i was surprised to read about these things because i haven't seen them. talking about philadelphia international airport, a free exercise stations that they move from place to place. >> philadelphia airport is part of their summer appreciation program, is a fitness zone so it is the elliptical and bicycles, consumers are waiting for their long delayed flights.
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melissa: if you want to get really sweaty before you get on the plane, extra clothes next to someone else. >> something about burning calories with ice-cream. >> in your travel clothes -- i don't want to criticize which is all i do but 20 airports in the u.s. and canada are offering therapy dogs? you goes in a delayed cut be? >> can you imagine? they have these adorable little furry friends and walk around with cute little red jackets and you see as surprised little happy dog. a lot of the mark rescue dogs, wonderful for kids. >> i want to get to these other ones. in germany there is a robot that will park your car for $45, denver lets you do free local and national calls, international as well. >> as long as it is less than 10 minutes. while you are waiting for your phone to be charged you can call, keep in touch with friends
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and family. it is -- >> we have to have you back soon. melissa: the truth is out there and bill knight knows it, the science guy explaining if every american donates the cost of a cup of coffee it could help fund the search for alien life, so for the uninitiated your ropea -- europa is the jupiter moon experts considered the likeliest place in the galaxy to host extra terrestrial. james is here. those are aliens for those who can't say extra terrestrial. if you choose between your morning starbucks and aliens, would you -- you can do anything on kickstart. >> this will struggle for funding. he has not done his credibility any favors by becoming a global warming activist and when you follow that with now we are looking for aliens, sigourney weaver and demonstrated telling evidence that aliens exist and
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they are nasty. melissa: that is how the universe works on the science channel. there are aliens out there somewhere. whatever the odds we are the only people in the hole giant galaxy? >> would you like some evidence they exist? >> we could fund the kicks that campaign. >> why haven't they -- >> they don't have a google search, they can't find us. are you ready for a subpoena? the lawsuit that could drag the nfl into the wage rate and florida state finding a way to pay its quarterback and sadly it will not be in crab legs. you get fat joke. at the end of the day it is all about money. ♪ when the world moves, futures move first.
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. liz: heisman trophy winner jamis winston has florida state going deep into the pockets.
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fsu ponying up $60,000 to cover quarterback's pricey insurance policy. james freeman and jonathan honic are back with me. a $10 million disability and loss of insurance value policy. he could have decided to protect his value if he went into the draft. they bought this policy. does this get dicey with ncaa rules? what do you think? >> it's always about money, when they say it's not. and in this case, this is an athlete that generates bigtime bucks. we're talking about tens of millions of dollars. so even $60,000 investment to protect that asset is well worth it to their bottom line. >> james, what do you think? >> i think that's more than the journal is paying to protect my ability to do my job. what i'm worth to the organization. it makes sense in their case. >> case of the buffalo bill blues for bon jovi, initial bid
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to buy the team is rejected for reportedly being way too low, james? >> some reports suggested he wants to move the team, which makes sense given the size of the market. that suggests he's the wrong owner. >> why? >> this should be an ultimate guy's toy, and something you waste money on, not try to make a profit on. certainly if you are operating a team in buffalo. >> i don't know, donald sterling made a killing on the team, like a good investment overtime. there is always somebody else who wants to buy the franchise for you. a suit filed by ex-buffalo bill cheerleader, commissioner roger goodell subpoenaed now. jonathan, what do you think? >> if you don't want to be a cheerleader, be a fitness instructor, paula abdul, madonna, halle berry, former cheerleaders who have done good with their career since. >> jonathan, would you be a buffalo jill?
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>> i wouldn't make the cut i don't think they would want me in a crop top and mini skirt. >> you are talking about this like it's a launch pad. they do it for the love of the game. >> on that note. that's all we have for you. i hope you're making money, here's liz. liz: failure, two gigantic takeover attempts worth over $100 billion go belly up. is the m&a boom now a bust? what's next for the feisty aggressive t-mobile ceo after the collapse of the sprint-t-mobile deal. and is time warner with twenty-first century fox. the new share of wall street, now senator elizabeth warren takes on u.s. companies using tax inversion deals. she sits down with adam shapiro with a fox business exclusive. wait u

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