and activision -- he's included in it, shouldn't he get a peace of the pie is the argument. >> well so are thousands of other historical figures included in it. a movie was done about me called rudy, starring james woods. shouldn't i have gotten a piece of the pie? i couldn't because i'm a historical figure. i don't have a right to recover for being a historical figure. now if i had created my fame based on my art. if i had created my fame based on my artistic achievements that might be a different matter. but where i become a piece of history, if i have to -- if i as an author have to pay everyone person whose a piece of history about including them this a book i couldn't write a book. it would cost too much money. it would become impossible. plus by becoming a part of history you waive that right of publicity. now he can sue. he can sue for defamation. he has that right. he could see for defamation. now he'd have a hard time proving defamation since he kills so many people, since he beheaded his best friend. since he was a dictator for eight years. he would have a hard time recover b

i'm very excited about call of duty advanced warfare by activision. launching on the xbox one and the ps4. we're excited about that. and skylander's trap team. today we have super smash brothers for the ds. there are games for everyone. liz: don't tell my 10-year-old about skylanders, he absolutely loves that one. as we look at the games on the screen, you guys are ramping up what you expect to be quite the holiday. you're going add about 25,000 employees for the holiday? that's up 47% year-over-year. i'm looking at that and saying gamestop is doing really well. >> we are doing really well, all about the growth that we talked about earlier. so we need all of those associates to sell all of this great technology, and, you know, we also have our trade-in program week have the trade-in program not only on games but phones as well which is going strong, and ramping up our investment in technology brands, that is a fast growing segment of gamestop. liz: we have a few seconds left but need somebody else to do well, that's paul raines, ceo taken a leave of a

activision blizzard wins. allowed to keep the x dictator of panama in.the picture today yesterday. the explosion of an unmanned rocket heading to the space station. it exploded as it was taking off. following the aftermath. plenty of newspapers picking up on the same story. it had nothingid to do with the engine. the u.s. had been using russian and other engines in some of its exploration. the russian coveney saying it was the modifications that lace in the u.s. that were to blame. the blame game continues. russiane, an unmanned spacecraft successfully launched from kazakhstan hours later. >> tell us what you think of the show on twitter. what you like, what you don't like. >> we will continue with next hour. in the stay with us. ♪ >> goodbye, qe. good morning to a new era for the world's largest economy. >> love tons a's profit warning. the airline blames the economic downturn or reducing its forecast for 2014. >> barclays braces itself for tougher leverage rules. >> hello, welcome to "countdown ." >> the time is just on 7:00. still waiting for numbers

activision, was the publisher. former mayor giuliani was arguing on behalf of activision. to you. >> crazy story. thank you very much. see you later. >>> market moving higher here. up 162 points right now. heading back to the highs of the day. joining me as we head toward the close, j.p. michael and barbara larson. i mean, i know, you're the individual stock wonk watching them carefully. what do you make of the earnings so far and this rally? is this earnings driven do you think? >> yes, i do. certainly one thing going for us in the very slow growth economy. fifth year earnings failed to get 3% and kornted to be strong and companies have done so many things to earn increase the earnings. >> we have had strong day it is last few days here. >> i think the fed's going to hold the key tomorrow, right? hopefully we'll see a patient and friendly fed. we'll see a fed that draws the proper line between an improved labor market and i think fallen inflation expectations and hopefully one to maneuver an exit of quantitative ease without a lot of month-end volatility. >> i mean, going

liz: call of drought, activision, you -- call of duty -- super mario is popular with smaller kids.n absolutely adores it. should these names be in people's portfolios in advance of christmas season? ea coming oot with "star wars," a lot of names here? >> if you judge by the zuckerman children, family, you should buying. they are expensive stocks but they send a signal where we're spending entertainment dollar. -@yesterday with bad earnings fm some of the regal and cinema companies. these guys, the game companies doing quite well. we're having a shift as americans where we spend our entertainment dollar. liz: remember, there is glu mobile, king digital of "candy crush," take two interact sieve, zynga. glu is off earlier highs. same with king digital. @mportant to remember they're not all giants of the industry. need to get to u.s. mortgage applications to high home. -@that level dropped to the lowt point since february. what is going on here, cheryl? this is your expertise. this is terrible sign for housing market. >> one of the things we saw in the numbers, there is real slow down

so he commits the 24 activision under the general teen. anyway, he comes over, crosses the straight and gets into the south korean peninsula. the south korean or the 24th division starts working its way up the road. and they get out around the 21st industry to five infantry regiment and they get up there and start setting up this defensive perimeter to form an engagement area to stop the north korean onslaught coming down the western corridor. in lieutenant colonel smith is looking out. he sees north korean tanks, tea 34 spirited start shooting rounds at him. rounds start paying off. to make a long story short, colonel smith gets over run. in fact, the 24th division got hammered pretty hard. the north korean arms lot continues. macarthur does is left hook. one thing ways to another. war settles out after about six months in this battle, a stalemate. three years later after 38 does americans killed. but there are a lot of skills to most of those 38,000 killed were killed in that war of movement at the beginning. and the united states army i

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