wal-mart because even if wal-mart slightly is soft on revenue, that's good news because it shows wal-martnvest in price to become the low price leader again for the first time since its legendary founder mr. sam walton died in 1992. in our pricing studies, we're finding wal-mart is steady with the low price leader in the u.s., and beating amazon on a lot of key metrics, and wal-mart's $11.99 store in colorado, it's an ideal idea of click and collect. as mark laurie said on cnbc on december 21st, within two years wal-mart will be able to reach 90% of u.s. customers by delivering at home again, amazon's worst nights mare coming around the corner with wal-mart. >> excellent thank you very much for that burt, managing director of strategic resource group let's take a look at u.s. futures before we hand you over to our colleague stateside looking at a negative start for u.s. trade that's it for today's show i'm juliana. >> i'm willem. worldwide exchange is coming up in a few moments time. oriasis. with tremfya®, you can get clearer. and stay clearer. in fact, most patients who saw 90% clearer

a year of what wal-mart calls protected paid time off. that's different from regular vacation time. it can be used for any reason. wal-mart will also reward employees who have good attendance records with quarterly bonuses. it's wal-mart's latest effort to the attract and repain retain qualified employees. >>> a bankruptcy court young will hear a hearing upon sears plans to sell all assets including its 425 stores to its chairman andy lampert. this is the only chance to keep the struggling business in business. his bid is o posed by creditors that argue sears should be shut down and lick inquiry dated. >>> a teach her strike could be coming to oakland. we're hours from knowing if oakland teach hers will walk on the job. what they're demanding coming up after the break. >>> manic and chaos in a -- panic and chaos in a southern california neighborhood after a null small plane crash into a home. >>> traffic is busy if you're driving on the commute here westbound bay bridge. that looks okay. >>> colder storm moving through the bay area bringi

wal-mart will have its first live earnings call in years. we may get some clues on the fed's plan for its balance sheet. watch friday as well well, let's discuss the keys for what you will be watching and what you need to watch not just this week, but going forward as well daniel morris, senior investment strategist at bnp paraba given all the stuff we just went through on our calendar, as well as the continued trade talks with china and now maybe a racheting up of tension of europe, what do you think is key for you as bnp paraba's clients? >> well, what we're thinking about is how much further we can keep rising or at least equity markets can keep rising at the same pace. we're skeptical about that if we look at the returns we've had year-to-date, you can argue a lot of that was just a reversal of december it was much more concerns about growth and profitability for corporations and so on i think those concerns really should still be there. if you look at the u.s. earnings season, even though the numbers from last year were still good, not

expansion plans in india and that's strange isn't it wal-mart makes a huge investment in india than the government is size zero that's a bit much and legislates after the investment making the investment virtually untenable our correspondent j p k's in bangalore j isn't reliable legal background important for foreign investors. yes well this is absolutely important for foreign investors you will most of all it's important for india to encourage foreign investment because five year low in fairness and. so it's really important for india to kind of get most of their religion martin but then in an election year it looks like the government has. gone to see we want to police that it is fourteen million it is in this country and you can see is the last word of this will it looks like the government has taken on these then what is it is it ok that's a populist move you may say but is india in general too restrictive when it when it comes to opening its markets. not so much he's not since one thousand nine hundred one since the softer liberalizing the economies of evangelicals. the regions

retail giant wal-mart and amazon battled it out last year to take over indian delivery service flipkart with the aim of bringing their e-commerce expertise to the world's second most populous country but now a new e-commerce law and yes making investment difficult with tough restrictions for foreign investors in the retail sector india's revised foreign direct investment rules for e-commerce went into effect at the beginning of this month. the new rules especially affect platforms selling their own products because no single vendor can account for more than twenty five percent of an online marketplace offering their restriction is aimed at protecting india's retail sector but its critics say it makes it harder for online platforms like amazon or even indian e-commerce platform flip card which is now owned by wal-mart to easily penetrate india's growing online retail market by only selling their own products last year walmart beat amazon in a bidding war for controlling stake a flick out with the hopes of entering the indian market the new restriction has dealt a blow to wal-mart's expan

wal-mart is replacing some of its trademark front door greeters.ove is not without controversy. david lee miller is here with the story to catch us up. >> reporter: attention wal-mart shoppers, changes at the country's biggest retailer are under way and some fear they will lose their jobs. the company is phasing in a plan that began three years ago to replace the iconic wal-mart greeters at hosts. the company said affected workers will have 60 days to transition into other jobs at the chain. those who become customer hosts will earn more money but will also have added responsibilities. some workers have reportedly been told they will have to be able to lift up to 25 pounds. for people with disabilities these new tasks could be a problem. number of highly publicized incidents greeters with disabilities have been told they were going to lose their jobs. >> i was hurt. i was devastated. i was angry. i'm scared. >> reporter: wal-mart facing a possible public relations fiasco and seems to be backing down. in a statement the company said special consider

dagen: no wal-mart. >> am done -- interesting story, great point because we have wal-mart on e-commerceommerce and amazon buying bricks and mortar, why do they do that, one reason to keep with wal-mart in groceries, ultimately grocery is perishable food. i thought that will never work, ship groceries from a centralized price, groceries are around the corner from everyone's store. wal-mart has the stores to do it, approving it now, groceries is one of the best performer of latest quarter. amazon is looking like how do we get amazon in groceries, last ones that amazon hasn't conquered, well, we can try to ship it from whole sailers and centralized locations, they started that way, does not work, they bought whole foods so they can be around the corner of people's homes and that's why they are expanding whole foods. maria: so is that the growth story within retail grocery, where are the growth stories in retail? >> the growth story are people who are doing it right in value in the internet, big believer in people like cosco, wal-mart, tjmaxx is worth more than target, tjmaxx is worth than

connell: the wal-mart numbers are interesting today and we kind of set it up as a wal-mart versus amazon 43%. as i said last hour from amazon kind of those online, but wal-mart is doing as well. >> i've been with tears the last several months, so that's a cautionary tale to these guys to tank near the kings of the world right now. you don't know when somebody will come along. after the numbers on the december sales, who sought? i asked michelle earlier promotes this is surprising surprise and she said no, we knew that. connell: the former chairman of stack could basically use those terms in pretty much said maybe the retail sales figure we all looked at was way below expert patients. i could have been affected by something else whether it's the shutdown or an aberration. what is your view of the american consumer now? at their biggest take away and there's some concern that it was such a nice frankly especially in light of these earnings from wal-mart. we are bullish on the consumer. i think the earnings show it. if you look at the fundamentals back in the u.s. consumer, the personal sav

wal-mart is facing many official and unofficial complaints.re are at least three of them a usb or employment opportunity commission. some consumer groups have started facebook campaigns calling on wal-mart to keep its commitment to be an inclusive. we've reached out to wal-mart for a specific comments. it did not get back to us i'm not. wal-mart is the private employers for a lot of people are paying attention to this decision that makes the retailer seen a disturbing tube placed the greeters and other jobs within the company by people of done firsthand reporting they they have been discouraged in certain cases from applying to specific other positions. if you look at the stock up around 11% slightly edging out amazon which is up around 10% of the same time. wal-mart and other retailers competing head-on with amazon is amazon uses more robotics. in some instances it can vast need for humans. >> thank you very much. in the meantime, the president in alaska right now. back from and away vietnam with the north korean leader kim jong un. think saw

>> i wouldn't say wal-mart is a grocer >> it is the country's biggest grocer, and 56z% of wal-mart salesally, 56%. >> would you consider trader joe as a grocer. >> a lot of it is prepackaged food full of untraditional. >> trader joe's is the main grocer that i go to. it appears happens to be close to where i live. it is the main grocer. >> have you ever been in an h.e.b. >> i have -- >> do you know what it stands for? >> it's texas-based chain. they're big. they're like the publix of texas. >>ent do know much about that. >> trader joe's taking the top spot >> people love trader joe wres's >> they really do. what's the one item that never leaves your side it's also the most filthy. your phone >> a new study is showing that your smartphone is actually seven times dirtier than a toilet not only are we taking our phones with us to the bathroom, but we also take it to the kitchen, to the bedroom, offense desks. it's a big issue too public transit they found out that the typical worker's desk, which is thoem your phone, 40 hours a week or more, possibly, has hundreds of times more bacteria per

everybody shops at wal-mart.ve a little bit more variety than what we heard from the patriots unless maybe you guys were just being selective in your choices there. i know two different questions >> they seem to be all am zplon, guys, nike guys, gatorade guys they're a well run cohesive unit the rams are l.a., hollywood, and got a lot of different interests. you saw a lot of different picks out of them. being the ceo, different from being an investor. maybe that's why you saw that diversity there, courtney. >> very interesting stuff. thanks for getting up early with us have a great day >> coming up next, jobs, jobs, jobs investors anxiously awaiting this month's quarterly reports we're going to tell when you worldwide exchange comes back. my mom washes the dishes... ...before she puts them in the dishwasher. so what does the dishwasher do? cascade platinum does the work for you, prewashing and removing stuck-on foods, the first time. wow, that's clean! cascade platinum. [kno♪king] ♪ memories. what we deliver by d

if wal-mart wants to compete with amazon, they have distribution centers all over north america.bution centers not just supermarkets so they can have same day delivery. this is much more important to amazon as a distribution -- just as important as it is a supermarket. i think they are doing fine in north america. this is a blip. >> the company released a statement. in the statement they said yes it has to do inflation contracts expiring but they alluded to other discounts. that's an avenue we should talk about. those discounts primarily concern prime members. when you continue to give prime members discounts, it can encourage more people who walk into whole foods to get a prime membership. you don't want to feel left out. i don't have a prime membership. i go in and i'm like darn i can't get the 10% off the avocados again this week. i don't go very often because i find it expensive. i think this is an opportunity for them to improve their margins because whole foods was expensive before amazon came in and gather more prime members. >> you like avocados? [laughter] >> you are so

used to amazon doesn't believe in and right on down the line but you know new york's doesn't have a wal-mart in new york city doesn't have a wal-mart because it's an evil corporation and i hate to make this political but the star of the day they always see. cortez tweeted out that this whole amazon deal was a creepy overreach of one of the world's biggest corporations and she was dead set against letting this deal happen she represents part of queens so that's the political fight that amazon had to deal with as well that they're evil because they're a big company forget the fact that we're going to bring twenty thousand twenty five thousand jobs at over one hundred thirty thousand a day at it and twenty twenty five billion dollars in revenue. great discussion thank you so much steve malzberg announcement which thanks guys and your bar. and last time on the program we spoke about the ins to the institutional bill liddy of crypto currencies and how major institutions are beginning to recognize the technology well now it's official j.p. morgan has announced that they they will be the first amer

they really have to step it up if they want to compete with amazon if they want to compete with wal-mart and i think that the way that they're trying to do that by going in and adding partners in their online space based on what their clients are actually searching for is going to be critical and i do think that even at this quarter if they have a bad earnings report i think that in the long term it's a great buy and let's shift also to nike and put on our running shoes because they've had this sort of embarrassing problem i guess they have a lace up shoed that laces up i guess with an app and if you're using an app to lace your shoes how that works but supposedly buyers who've bought these shoes are saying hey they only work for a little bit of a time. doing pretty well but the whole controversy over the capper nick commercial success i noticed last night watching the academy awards they had a great commercial out there with us arena williams but this got to be pretty embarrassing for them what do you think of nike and what do you think about them is something that average investors sho

deliver his second to the stinks of the union address this evening as controversial plans for a bortle wal-mart specter expected to feature prominently in his highly.

harder to work together in germany and poland among countries considering banning products from wal-mart which is close ties to the chinese military. more trouble for german payment services provider y. a card investors in the u.s. have filed a class action lawsuit saying the company violated federal securities laws than those with alleges that why a car has misled investors but investors by not disclosing that an executive in singapore was under investigation for money laundering. china israel operators says more people have taken the train than ever before during this year's sprains festival travel rush more than two hundred million passengers put the country's rail network to the test many migrant workers have travelled home for the festival which began three weeks ago. american whiskey makers are feeling the tremors after a major overseas markets imposed hefty duty is on their products in retaliation for u.s. president all trumps tariffs on ellen minium imports one sleeve is from canada mexico china and the e.u. took effect the collective u.s. whiskey exports fell by eighty percent.

a native of pocahontas arkansas, dick was recruited to the northwest part of our state by wal-mart founder sam walton. since moving to the area in 1975, he's been the area's most avid cheerleader. it came natural for dick who was a university of arkansas cheerleader in the 1950's. mr. womack: nothing in oiler area hasn't happened in 40-plus years that doesn't have his fingerprint on it. he's been a a mainstay in rotary international, higher education, program serving our youth, mercy hospital, and dozens of other sharetible causes. -- charitable causes. congratulations on a terrific career and life serving your fellow man. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. lamalfa: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to congratulate acting secretary david bernhardt for being nominated to serve as the next secretary of the department

wal-mart eliminating one of its best in store jobs.on will not see the greeters of wal-mart and why employees with disabilities are feeling like they're being targeted. >> reporter: good morning. coming up in the next hour, how a plan to buy, preserve and build affordable housing could actually make it on this year's ballot for san francisco. and we'll look how the actor jussie smollett case could have an effect on victims of hate crimes. the executive director of the aids project of the east bay will join us live in the studio. victims can be encouraged their stories after what the police call a high-profile hoax. you. all of you. how you live, what you love. that's what inspired us to create america's most advanced internet. internet that puts you in charge. that protects what's important. it handles everything, and reaches everywhere. this is beyond wifi, this is xfi. simple. easy. awesome. xfinity, the future of awesome. sarah's last tuition payment, sent off. feeling good? oh yeah. now i'm ready to focus on my project. ♪ ♪ this is

a wal-mart earnings preview on the future of fannie mae and freddie mac. i am lauren simonetti in for liz claman today. but start the countdown. lauren: the markets may be closed today, but we are open and we are here to give you the latest market news ahead of tomorrow's opening trade here and let's take a quick look at the economic data point you will need to be watching this week. retail giant wal-mart will be reporting before the opening bell. more on that in a bit. wednesday earnings from cvs plus minutes from the federal reserve last meeting. i think thursday is going to make you hungry. several food focus earnings are due out. domino's, wendy's and craft times, all of those reporting. also expecting sales of previously owned homes in durable goods data. in the meantime let's get to the action today. low-cost airlines southwest hitting some turbulence. the federal aviation administration is investigating the carrier for failure to accurately track the total weight of bags shipped on each plane. the faa says employees significant mistakes can cause si

you take a closer look then small things have happened for example supermarket change chains like wal-mart have raised the minimum age for buying rifles from eighteen to twenty one also other companies have canceled their discounts for members of the national rifle association as they fear. damaging their their images and so on and that is certainly taken a year or witnessed here in the community and gives them some come forward as well . florida thank you. and you were pm aviation giant adbusters to run production of its super jumbo passenger jet the a three eighty to raze orders from australia's kwanza sat lines on the buyers emirates were cancelled it's good news for rival boeing but a big blow for us the company had hoped the a three eighty would squeeze out boeing seven four seven and revolutionize after apple for the airlines have been cautious about committing to the costly double deckers the a three eighty took off for the first time in two thousand and eight and seats around five hundred passengers. which take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world br

american involvement in the overthrow of the government of libya the government of wal-mart khadafi was the number example then call it a number of impulses in the american interventionist spirit. as. was in saudi when i knew not the could be and had then walked and if it had that much them i don't really. have. yes defeat the fuck up and see a see. them as that all off. maduna because he will from the innocent will feet now. and then walk on. and the house at the hummus and then he. would move me yes it will be i can be in the middle of the field both had to do it but that away in woman i did them as usual for me and libby . we thought of him as a bad leader one we couldn't control now he looked like he might be about to carry out all human rights atrocity so we decided it was time to participate in an operation to overthrow gadhafi and in that operation of course he was killed. so we succeeded in the short term goal get rid of gadhafi and deposed that government but then what happened we didn't have a plan for what was going to come next we thought that maybe by magic some new peacefu

just like wal-mart had a great number target gave us great numbers when they released their preshow.onsumer is great. that's not the issue kohl's will have good numbers. nice macy's is in the phase of having to reconfigure the business to serve that customer, and they're mall-based they've been doing a good job of it, right? they're moving on-line and doing all the buy on-line pick-up and return to store. all the stuff you have to do but it's an expensive process, and we've seen that put a lot of pressure on them yes, they're not where they need to be, but it's not the consumer it's the department stores problem. >> i know real estate and malls in particular whereby have been an issue with a market cap of 7.5 billion dollars, at what point does macy's real estate value support the stock? the market appears to be valuing their core business at almost nothing. >> we're clearly there if anybody cared about the real estate the problem you've got today is the real estate values are hard to realize they would take a long time, and what have you -- nobody gives you credit for that in the cu

the latest, and that is that the watchdog has said it could block sainsbury's take-over bid of wal-mart's own azda. they said it was concerned the supermarket tie-up could cut competition and negatively impact shoppers. it also suggested the deal would require the sale of a number of stores or one of either company's subsidiary brands. sainsbury said it disagreed with the finding and said the regulate or had "moved the goal posts. as you just saw, shares opening sharply lower on the back of that news. let's get a look at the broader u.k. grocer space. this doesn't have it in isolation. it will have implications for the broader sector we are seeing tesco shares trade a touch hire on the news morrison trading down about 4% marks & spencer's up a touch as well at the moment the mass i reaction is mixing, and sainsbury, as one would expect to help make sense for what this means for sainsbury and the broader sector, very happy that we are joined this morning by bruno monteyne from bernstein with retail food now, investors, obviously, taking this news very badly. we've seen more than 12% drop i

a soft woman here journo wal-mart only a body to give a deal to gave my soul. the last time. it was six o'clock in the morning when i got picked up the bulk of the night most likely killed by its own parents. place of them marcy funny shiny and their god here. like you think they did they got here. man. after that found the remains end up in this karate mall. or show. because the blood showed a lot of those stiff. photo case because of that it was a good idea that he bought out the. mohammed has been doing this job in its liquid was going to love the book that this little ben was going to school. here in thailand is that did. you hear that out oh it was so kind of is cool does not think of. it brought to the symmetry. of all of bush. buried with the prayer. in one in one hundred seventy five could be done by woodbury interaction. but one movement has been watching to sight the relief goods and. build keys is the head of the biggest charity in the country as he found that. it encourages women to leave their babies in a crib at the top of the stick. your mother's neck. and that

on wal-mart now which by the way wal-mart changed their time off their a leave policy, and basicallyays for emergencies and illnesses every year and a plus every six month ace crew five dayses to use for unexpected absences not enough or for mr. sanders who says no, you still need to give workers more flexibility and you should also be paying them 15 dollars an hour. he says, quote, if wal-mart can afford 20 billion for stock buybacks to enrich wealthy share holders it can raise the pay of all of its workers to a living wage. >> never be enough. never will it ever be enough? last nights in thes they were not cheering on our country's economic success look at this. >> and we are considered far and away the hottest economy anywhere in the world. not even close. [applause] i think we need a dose of charles hurt and washington times opinion editor. look i'm not surprised by this. and frankly appalledded our nation is doing very well all of our citizens are doing well in this booming economy. i would have thought that democrats should have supported it. >> yeah, absolutely stuart and it r

how about wal-mart? wal-mart has created millions of jobs and trillions of dollars of wealth and single-handedly lowered the inflation rate in this country and around the world. they should be paid for what they have done. how about bill gates changing the face of technology? i can go on and on about those people who have created trillions of dollars of wealth, millions and millions of jobs and it's become for some reason on the left it is normal for them to put these people down and they're using the word immoral? i'm sorry, these people should be talked about to your kids about where they came from and where they are and what they have created, instead of the people on the left are doing the exact opposite. david: you know, larry kudlow, what he does very often, and we have seen this time and again on fbn when we've covered his speeches, he focuses on the blue-collar workers. he focuses on the people who have seen their wages stagnant in the last 20 years who are finally getting a bump up in their wage

fedex teaming with companies autozone, lowe's, pizza hut, walgreens and wal-mart to expand their residentialdelivery. fedex will test the robot in select markets. marcus and laura, back to you. >>> watching that video, a little dog came up to the robot, what if the robot with the dog. >> can it survive the hills ins >> it will get a workout. >> thanks, france. >> next on "today in the bay," kari tracking our thursday forecast if we can get out and walk the dog today. >> it's a good day. finally we have a chance to get outside, maybe even get a little bit of sunshine. here is a live look outside in oakland. if you're on the way to the fruitvale b.a.r.t. station upper 40s. it will be dry but we'll talk about the next storm coming in and rising river levels next. >>> looking at 680 and 24, tkih crash reported in oakland. we'll talk about what lanes are blocked. what patients don't realize is what they eat and drink is likely acidic and then what's happening is the weakening of enamel. now is the perfect time for a toothpaste like the new pronamel repair. this toothpaste takes it to the next lev

we have seen some stocks that have been strong in recent days, including wal-mart amazon giving up ground. materials are strong, but everything else is weak. there is a storied stock taking it on chin today. cvs releases is numbers and lowering its outlook and revising expectations. investors not liking what they are hearing today. >> it has been hard for investors to find a new catalyst to prompt the rally higher. we are still awaiting a resolution to the u.s. -- china trade talks. we are getting the f 1 c minutes in less than half an hour. we are seeing that lack of catalyst go higher. now the stock markets are running against some technical indicators, one of them the 14 day index. we are now seeing that the s&p 500 has just surpassed that 70 level, entering over bought territory. what that means is we could be seeing less potential for more gains going forward. interesting, the same thing has happened for european stocks. they are very close to that over bought level at the 70 threshold. one stock really that has taken a hit in europe today has been ubs. a paris court fined them $5 bi

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including such luminaries in that field as wal-mart. >> how did they, in your view, violate the law? >> they do all kinds of things. they fire people who are trying to organize. they change rules for companies. or don't allow employees what we want to be our members to talk to each other about wages or anything else in the company. they are not allowed to talk about anything that has anything to do with that company. and if they are, they're disciplined if they get caught. >> when you were on the hill recently did you have a chance to talk with john legere, the head of t-mobile? >> not really, no. >> if t-mobile made a proposal where they said they'll create or 0 new job by -- before on 2024, would that assuage some of your fears? >> not at all. t-mobile makes promises all the time and doesn't keep them. you know. maybe if they would put some of this in writing it might assuage some of our fears but i doubt they'll do that and there'll be a million loopholes if they do. >> would you want to have discussions with t-mobile in terms of some concessions they could make to get your suppor

wal-mart, tyson, and jb hunt.d of course taxpayers recognize that our income tax rate were too high. too high compared to other states around the country, but too high compared to our neighboring states. so we are in the process but why the governor of getting those down. stuart: did you notice a tax exodus going out of arkansas crossing the state line to enable taxes? did you see a tax exodus? >> i don't think there was any one event. i just think that for years we have needed to focus on ms. and i applaud the governor and the legislature for tackling that. you know, we have these companies that i've mentioned in many other amazing company is in those, by the way, are organic. we want to continue to attract people here. once people come to arkansas and see its beauty and the quality of life, low cost of living, they see how amazing it is and we want to make the whole package one that is attractive than the income tax rate in corporate tax rates another rates are all things that we are working on because ultimatel

rivals may be rushing to play catch up before a long flipkart for example which was acquired by wal-martlast year may have to remove as many as one in four products currently for sale we'll see how just this all works out in the future we'll keep tracking it and the all shares down the year and the cac cac forty index in france actually up or know by the way of the automaker for the week and for the year as is the known down in the yogurt company and the dax is down for the week but also up for the year. the owner of mercedes benz and a few other brands is up for the week and the year as is b.m.w. another german company we all know the footsie in london up and up even with all these concerns we tell you about all the time and down in south america the coal cap is up for the weekend up and get this we've talked about the i believe. so many times and it's always been up up up right well it's actually down for the week but still up as you can see there for the year and the t.s.a. x. in toronto up each week for the year and therefore up for the year and of course we told you about the gangbu

you take a closer look then small things have happened for example supermarket change chains like wal-mart have raised the minimum age for buying rifle from eighteen to twenty one also other companies have canceled their discounts for members of the national rifle association as they fear. damaging their their images and so on and that is certainly taken a year or witnessed here in the community and gives them some come forward as well . all of a siletz in florida thank you we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world a judge in the united states has ruled that former trump campaign manager a lot of thought did intentionally lie to investigators are looking into the russian the interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election after being convicted of financial fraud last year it was the metaphor to promise to cooperate with the investigation as part of a plea deal breach of that agreement means he could now face a lengthy jail term. suicide car bombings killed at least thirty police officers in indian administered kashmir officials say the pakista

i see them at wal-mart. guy in front of me with two little kids. was looking meek. i know he's illegal. he had two kids in wull mart and paying for his stuff with crisp $100 bills. host: joe in connecticut. one more call here just from perspective on this on this declaring an emergency, the president, president trump you may recall declared a national health emergency because of the opioid crisis in october of 2017. the associated press reporting about with some historical perspective saying that president clinton declared 17 mblingcies during his tenure -- emergencies during his tenure. president bush, 12, president obama, 12. according to the brennan center for justice, they trasked 58 declarations. 31 of the declarations they say still remain in effect. one more call here we'll go to gainesville, texas. hear from jimmy on our republican line. caller: hello. hank you for taking my call. president trump -- of course i feel this way. that he is very much right in his decision. unless you do not live in a place like texas, or you do not know anybody that lives on the

you take a closer look then small things have happened for example supermarket changes chains like wal-mart have raised the minimum age for buying rifles from eighteen to twenty one also other companies have canceled their discounts for members of the national rifle association as they fear. damaging their their images and so on and that is certainly taken a year or witnessed here in the community and gives them some come forward as well . all of us siletz in florida thank you for you some of the other stories making news around the world the judge in the united states israel the former trump campaign manager paul maeder fought did intentionally lie to investigators looking into russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election after being convicted of financial fraud last year as the mother fought probably stick cooperate with the investigation as part of a plea deal breaching that agreement means enough could face a lengthy jail term. a court in turkey has ordered the german turkish journalist and social worker adult image she be released from jail in istanbul he spent ten

those are jobs that are paying one hundred thousand dollars a year only other option is working out wal-mart for ten bucks an hour when i look at all the globalized institutions that are breaking apart now opec the e.u. nato. nafta un un bodies are breaking apart because some nations recognize parts of palestinian cultural sort of things and. and so we're. devolving back into five times or evolving depending on how you look at it back into five times and tribes and all those tribes eight interoperability and i suggest an open source triple accounting currency by the name of a coin. but like i say i think it's just the west who have been the winners so far in the last hundred two hundred years and where the if you look at china they're deeply trying to integrate with all of the rest of asia and all of europe that it's in their benefit if they want to write they can't rise to power as an isolated entity. so we don't know if this will become law we don't know if this will happen finally but there's a likelihood that it could because as he said we're just one tweet away it just takes time to be

mean companies like facebook and google and apple and amazon all these companies eclipsed you know wal-mart or you know netflix eclipses disney in terms of market cap and projected future growth and all that kind of thing and it's because digital is so much more scalable so for example i just need to make one app and upload that to the internet and that can be downloaded a million or a billion times but i many actually built one app where is something like you know if i invent a great car i still got all the logistical problems of building a gazillion koch you know copies of that car and shipping them and building the factories and doing all of those things so this is scale ability with digital technology that doesn't exist in the sort of analog world and if you transfer that to bitcoin where the immense scale ability comes in is in this still huge population in the of the globe to. three billion people almost half the world's population still that is still on banked they still do not have access to basic banking but these guys are all now getting their first smart phone i think by the it t

elsewhere and we've talked about this we've talked about amazon trying to get into the indian market and wal-mart buying flipkart and how difficult it is now because india is passing laws and making new rules and regulations that are prohibited and this is coming up as an election by the way is about three months of the future in india so they are listening to the people's complaints and and want to shore up their base as they run the president the prime minister of india but there's more they want master card and visa and other companies to keep data stored in india which is also prohibited and there are increasing tariffs on electronics and smartphones and other things so the united states is saying hey we may read can figure this g.s.t. or eliminate it altogether and what india fears is that in a new trade deal trump will say guess what we don't want any tariff charge on american goods going into india so it's one big mess but trump is taking it on. that makes me think of two things one is that you talk about the election coming up in april and may and this sure adds another element of risk fo

for the wal-mart. think about. what indeed go for delegation and gain of such a method. of reconciliation and dialogue augustana sending a signal to the prime minister form on it. would be disappointed and ok thank you very much for that come on in islamabad let's go to phase john maine our correspondent in new delhi now face india's top army command in kashmir directly they blaming pakistan and pakistan's intelligence services the i.s.i. for the attack in full lama how will india now respond to what we just heard from the pakistani prime minister this extended hand for dialogue but nonetheless said bad very firm tone from the pakistani prime minister. well india and the indian government will have to play a balancing act because they do want to show to voters here as mentioned there is an election coming up here soon in india so they have to balance on how the show to the public in india how they're handling the situation but then also trying not to escalate tensions with pakistan become a little mention that yes imran khan is not really known as a warmonger he was actu

multinational membership only warehouse club and the second largest retailer in the state's behind wal-mart has banned round up the aforementioned saramago to open joins us so what do you make of this with regard to costco locations they have them all over the world is round up going to be banned in the u.s. and around the world do we know all costco does have over seven hundred locations worldwide france spain over five hundred of those are in the united states i actually called a few costco's and that called the headquarters here in the u.s. where they confirm that they will not be selling roundup now moms across america started the petition on change or went and got over eighty nine thousand signatures and they're also trying to inspire others like calling on costco lowe's and home depot to stop selling the product we'll see if they follow suit we appreciate you following this story were so good out last year we're glad you happy to be here for something else hang right there sara and this week president trump has picked his replacement to be the next president of the world bank a senior

good or bad but it's no different than some of the things that you talk about when something like wal-mart or home depot comes into a major area i mean speaking before we get into you know content and editorial decisions when the economics of the business are such that it's monopolized by just a few owners well obviously you're going to get a situation. where people are going to be fighting to get that big story because there are interests involved and there's not enough competition exact see can i tell you something the news with rick sanchez this little thing we do here on our america every night go ahead yeah we've done three point four million viewers in the last week and a half are right now i will share something with you those are higher numbers than i had when i was at c.n.n. and you were number one at c.n.n. per year exactly so there's a paradigm shift going on in the business people who are watching our show are looking for us because they're younger hipper viewers or not folks and old folks homes falling asleep on rocking chairs but you know i think one of the most interesting t