come up with a lot of it's trying to achieve true hopefully for you for the eric cory who's going to watching t.v. and watching olympic competition on the ice and will it matter for you that these people aren't competing under a russian flag will you look at them differently. i look at hockey i watch you. know the game i have to know the players from out there so i have to be a little bit different story. look up to the game and the results of the. play itself. sets a story that's not to go and say i'm a player yeah but that's a true story do you think generally speaking collective punishment should exist in sports. collective punishment do you think that should exist in sports in generals . like this. it's a sad story of what happened in sports you. know you'll see this is. what's called behind us to go. to this site are not asking to analyze what's happening to the letter as a sportsman to someone who played with a team and that can happen in any team in any country not only in the olympics you can test a sportsman for adopting and it turns out he takes the substance and then the r

cory: that was our one and only eric newcomer.ticking with uber, up next, we talked to bill gurley, one of our favorites -- we talk to bill gurley, one of our favorites. is liverg technology" streaming on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ loomberg. ♪ benchmark is one of uber earliest investors. bill gurley has stepped off the uber board earlier this year, but he is still vocal about the company. benchmark is one of uber earliestbloomberg's emily change with him and new vendor -- him in november. bill: i know through my own conversations with dara that he is getting good advice and help from travis. when i look at the current situation, you know, i feel extremely happy relative to where we were back in may or june. i think the entire board, including travis, is excited about dara as ceo. i think he is doing an incredible job. i think he did a great job in interfacing with the regulatory bodies in london and again in brazil. we just added tony west, who eric holder helped us hire. so, i feel really good. i think we have probably reached

cory johnson on that breaking news in the last hour of eric schmidt stepping aside.ad around the world, but struggling at home. second-quarter sales falling short of estimates in the u.s., in china, theasts middle east and africa. we will take a look at the results with ken. you know, nike had good results overseas and the u.s. was still a disappointment and likely why the stock did not move on this, right? ken: they reported good numbers, but when you drill down, europe, china, high double-digit growth and minus seven on the footwear side in the u.s., less than expected. so struggling in the u.s. market, but considering the market right now with what is going on in terms of inventory, it is understandable. betty: what is going on in the u.s., holiday try to turn it around? chen: if you look at the last 24 months, they are facing pressure from competitors like adidas and when you talk about a nine-month cycle in terms of designing and manufacturing, they made too many units in terms of how much they will sell. now they are struggling with elevated levels of inventory

eric thomas. >> in tonight headlines thousands honored a fallen feist in san diego today. coryverson dd battling the thomas wildfire, the largest in california history earlier this month. iverson's wife called him, quote, superhero." . he leaves behind a 2-year-old and unborn child. >> one day after a man was charged with plotting to attack people at the tourist magnet pier 39 thousands smopd and died at the pier. relatives of the suspect everitt aaron jameson say they're shocked by charges against him. >> and san mateo police are offering a safety tip for last minute christmas shoppers. don't leave items inside your car's trunk. they've seen a spike in grinchs breaking into cars lately in busy shopping areas. >> to the controversy rocking the miss america organization. >> top executives taking the paul. chuck severson has the story. >> resignation at the top of the miss america organization. ceo sam haskell resigned saturday from the new jersey bay organization the day after being suspended by the board. president and coo and chamberlin weidner departing. following publication

eric: democrat doug jones is making a push to african-american voters this weekend with cory booker anduval patrick. so, peter how is jones trying to exploit what we just heard, moorps absence from the campaign trail and he's ducking questions from the campaign reporters. reporter: jones is arguing he thinks this is a one-man race. >> if i didn't know better, i wouldn't think there was anybody running against me because you don't see roy moore out anywhere. reporter: doug jones is maintaining a busy schedule with only a day and a half left until people head to the polls. tonight jones heads to huntsville for an event at a baptist church. these are democratic parts of the state. there is less of an effort to introduce jones to republicans saying they don't want to vote for moore, and more of an effort to get democrats in alabama to vote on tuesday. eric: how are they promoting jones. reporter: they are trying to make the case that rye moore --y moore would only represent roy moore you verters. and doug jones would be different. >> this is about the boring unglamorous every day work fight

cory: as we mentioned, 2017, a rocky year for uber. erics past, present, and potential problems. reporter: 2017, the year that uber would probably want to forget. embattled ceo travis kalanick resigned. dozens of executives left. allegations surfaced of sexual harassment by employees that brought its company culture to life. that was not all. uber's top rival lyft continued to eat away at market share. riding the coattails of the elite uber movement. one of uber's investors announced its suing uber over the alleged theft of trade secrets. to top it all off, to round out the year, uber lost its london license, was ruled a transportation service rather than a digital one in the e.u., and continues to face mounting legal battles from all over the globe. but uber is trying to turn the corner. with new ceo dara khosrowshahi bringing in new legal heads and a coo as they tried to right the ship. she has been on an apology tour, meeting with angry regulators worldwide in bringing uber's skeletons out of the closet, such as the massive hack of over

cory: there have been discussions about him going to all kinds of places. there is wonderful stuff in the scott galloway's new books. they said, we have to get rid of -- and hire ericchmidt. he has been moving away from the executive role at google for a long time with the move from ceo to whom a we broke this story. emily: i remember when that happened. it was 2011. cory: when we first started the show. emily: page came in as ceo and in 2015 he restructured and turned the company into alphabet. cory: he has had a remarkable career at silicon valley. he has also been very involved in the silicon valley. he has also been involved in philanthropy. i would not expect that to stop either. emily: cory johnson thank you , for giving us the more context. -- didi has raised chuxing has raised $50 billion. cash reserves at $12 billion. some of the money raised goes toward autonomous car's and electric car charging networks. facing -- coming up, facebook care is about getting influential people on this platform. now the company's practice of working with politicians, some use it to silence opponents is under scrutiny. we will explain. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: facebook's i

credit to cory gardener and mit rommy and mitch mcconnell and many others who did treat him as toxic. but i do agree that the problems run very deep in this party. the movement, you know, eric haufner said every movement eventually becomes a business and finally a racket. and among too many interest groups it's become about money. >> the point on moore to me and you referenced this as mona did, even before the allegations this is person twice removed from the supreme court in the state of alabama by republicans. the other republican justices who sit on that body who say this guy is lawless and unfit. even before "the washington post" story, my feel is if you vote for roy moore, you'll vote for anyone. >> it is the problem. and it's basically if you have an "r" after your name, and in the case of roy moore he won the nomination, became the only republican allowed to be on the ballot with the votes of 8% of the population of the state. so that's part of our political system that allows people like that to ascend and become the only nominee of their party that's allowed to be on the ballot. but the fact that somebody like roy moore could come forward, be the republican nominee