astra wasioner, as saying, some say this is a done deal already. you recall those phrases being used more than 10 years ago when there was an attempt to consolidate media ownership and everyone was saying that was a done deal, too. but then you went out into the heartland of america and began holding hearings that changed the nature of the discussion. do you think it is time for something like that again? >> it is imperative. the decisions that are going to be made by the fcc this year with regard to internet freedom and with regard to further consolidation like this ridiculous comcast, time warner cable merger, are going to determine almost the future of the internet for generation. so the future is now for the internet. you are absolutely correct. the only way we're going to put a stop to going down this road is citizen action. that happened in 2003 when chairman powell was trying to change the media ownership caps at the commission so fewer and fewer behemoths could gobble up more and more independent stations around the country and there was a

pfizer and astra would be a megadeal.ouldn't write off the megadeal even though we saw a unique type of deal structuring last week with novartis. years almostt 3, 4 all of the ceos of the major companies spoke against megadeals. here comes pfizer with a bid for a megadeal. --hink it is the you need the unique weakness of pfizer. >> great to speak to you this morning, thank you very much for coming in. mix between, a rare a zebra and a donkey makes its debut at a zoo in mexico. it is not a joke. ♪ >> it is time for "hotshots," a look at some of the most compelling images of the day. thousands of people visited the tombs of pope john paul ii and pope john xxiii following the historic and another nation in which they were proclaimed saints. pilgrims fromcted all over the world. the vatican estimated that 800,000 people came to the event in rome. a rare cross between a zebra and a donkey better known as a zonkey was born at a zoo in mexico. born in april. its mother is a female zebra. the father is a dwarf blue-eyed albino do

at the front door, knocking at the front door of astra.shareholders have to make a decision whether they are interested in that type of proposition or they wait for the tight line of astra to come through and deliver. that is the debate. also, valuation. you were reading the headlines saying the deal for shareholders should be at 65. >> this is my point about the competition. is that they cannot bid in excess of the original offer for six months. is that correct? >> they were saying around 60. >> in terms of why astra should bite, why would he be interested in coming back? >> i do not know if it will be down to the management at astra. they have the duty to shareholders to put any meaningful offer for the company to shareholders. last week, we heard some rumors that they appointed two banks to come up with a defense as to why you would want, as a shareholder, to take the number that is being offered to you in cash today. do not forget, it is not all cash. cash and shares. you still have some risk if things do not work out. 2017, whenl 2016

a big move in astra's shares, one of the top on the ftse, 14%. pfizer a slight bit higher in germany today. katherine boil is joining us with more on that. there's been a lot of discussion behind the scenes, is the next offer going to be a hostile one? >> well, it looks like pfizer is very much taking that tone with the statement today saying they made a couple of efforts to engage with astrazeneca management and they are not engaging back and are going directly to shareholders. what we have to see next is how much of a sweetener they are coming back for the shareholders because actually, if you look at astrazeneca shares today, they are trading close to the initial offer price made back in january. so pfizer definitely is going to have to add a little bit more to that to see shareholders really respond. >> no doubt the hedge funds are snipping around this deal already, but when we talk about the hostile approach, these are much more difficult to get across. but you have a backdrop where big farmer is on the move with the hallowed activity out th

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i think for astra, the key is about how they can execute on the pipeline. thewhen you share price, astrazeneca has gained 2.5%. earnings were lower but investors are focusing on the pipeline and the drugs they have that will be working. what is going to be the most revolutionary thing coming out of the pharma sector? mna has beenhe done with the large caps. you are right to say they have been specialized and become more focused. that has been the theme for the last five years. spinoffs,ts of which novartis did relatively recently. a lot of that has been done. they have been under pressure for the last few years to do this. at the are now seeing is mid-cap level, you saw the big bid by valiant. that is what we will see a lot more. >> thank you so much for all of that. naresh chouhan, head of european pharma research. now the international monetary fund staff has endorsed a $17 billion loan for ukraine. , russia warns that it will protect its citizens in ukraine. ryan chilcote has all the details. >> ukraine's resumption of its push to dislodge those separati

i think shareholders would probably welcome such an offer because it would take the uncertainty astra has. so from that perspective, i think that would make sense for pfizer. they have stock cash pile to use which is valuable for them from a tax perspective. >> when you look at what's continuing to drive our markets and what's continuing to drive news flow, ipos definitely up there, m & a definitely up there as well. >> i think there's a lot of appetite to take a fresh look at everything right now. we've just come out of this period of all sitting in the gloom and the dark, particularly in the west. i'm not saying the sun is shining but from an economic perspective, things look so much better, politically in person europe and north america. you can argue what's going on. the underlying economics point in same direction. that's the confidence, right? i think business leaders have got confidence. therefore they'll put their money on the table. >> i agree. i think that the level of confidence in the secretary are, despite the fact there is pressure on revenues and margins are driven by r

. >>> a $100 million bid - pfizer making a move for astra zennica. will it lower costs for consumers. >> welcome back. the cost of food and other basic items is rising. for most people how much they earn is not going up. this means many american families are forced to make a tough decision. patty culhane has more. >> reporter: if you want to know what the rising cost of the food means in the u.s. ask sharon white of maryland. she was buying the cheapest goods on the shelf. it was not enough to feed her two children and grandson. to do that she had to get a second job to supplement her $25,000 a year salary. >> it's bad. i work at the school with the children as a teachers aid and work in a fast food restaurant. >> she is one of millions of americans who can't remember the last time they got a raise. during the recession wages fell for 70% of those in the country. the price of everything is expensive. beef has hit a high, up 56% since 2010. eggs jumped 6%. milk up 2.5% since last year. apples up more than 4%. that is the beginning for fruit prices exp

they are talking about a 70/30 type of deal for stock and cash, also that doesn't seem to suffice for astra't forget, pfizer has until may 26th to announce their intention to make the offer or back away. again, this could really save them a lot in taxes and beef up that cancer pipeline as well. liz: okay. we're watching that one closely. thank you, nicole. it has been just about four years since the affordable care act was signed into law. march 2rd 2010 -- 23rd, 2010 makes it that date. still holding up and barely a month since open enrollment ended on march 31st, 2014. hospitals and health care companies do continue after years to struggle under the weight of hefty health care costs. one company is using big data to help health care players keep their expenses in check. premier, this is a charlotte-based health care improvement company, went public last fall, launched an ipo, is taking a private sector approach in the rapidly changing health care landscape. what does that truly mean? let's ask ceo and president devore in a fox business exclusive. we looked at the calendar, and we thought

could astra seek to merge with another partner? could pfizer end up pursuing somebody else?ol meyers squib is more suitable for pfizer. potentially we have some m&a that could be taking place soon. >> so i think first off you to talk about pfizer. the things that pfizer are looking at just tells you how much of a problem they have in pipeline. they virtually have almost no pipeline. astrazeneca ew c.e.o. did not come to sell the company. he came to build the company. you see that by the huge amounts of deals he has been hague. i would be very surprised to see him sell the company in the next few years. i don't believe we'll see a deal to sell astrazeneca. bristol meyers, they have p.d. one coming. the most exciting asset in the pharmaceutical industry. why would they sell now? maybe hope to get a higher price. i'm afraid i have to say know in both cases. i don't see that happening. i don't see bristol meyers or -- astrazeneca being sold in the next two to three years. >> this is an industry we're going to be focusing on again and again. >> 21 minutes past 7:00 here in london

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i am tom keene we are file -- followinga -- we are pfizer and astra seneca.hnson is with us this morning. >> the u.s. is beefing up its military options when it comes to china. considering is various responses to any future chinese provocation in the south and east china sea. among them aircraft carrier exercises near china. the u.s. in the philippines have signed a defense agreement just hours before president obama arrives in manila. handle territorial disputes as more u.s. troops will be filed in and out but there will not be a permanent u.s. presence, just rotated in and out. a romantic comedy beat the superhero at the box office. cameron diaz's "the other woman" won at the box office, "the soldier" came in second after three weeks at the top. you a fan of this? >> i have been to three or four movies, they have lost me. >> but you have been watching "game of thrones." >> movies are laughable now. scarlet has a wonderful chart. is all year long. chinese students are invading u.s. universities. if you look at the numbers. they may be displacing the asian-am

they want to buy astra zeneca which is done with the u.k. in order to therefore in the u.k. and avoid tax so what you would have there for a country companies from the u.k. and elsewhere coming over to the united states and trying to set up shell companies here to run their taxes through it zero percent and then pass it back into those their countries not simplifying the situation right only making implicitly creating a tax haven for the united states really at the end of the day the whole double taxation thing is complete nonsense because at the end of the day a corporation in which order to derive benefit from incorporating right economies of scale cosmic scope we also saw the fact that during the crisis you know there was mortgage fraud perpetrated by people. some of the too big to fail banks we have in the global where they went under enormous prosecute for those things that's the corporate veil right there you know you get benefits from being a person a legal person you should be taxed as a result if you own a massive corporation and yo

>> marriage astra divisional -- as traditionally understand is a right. >> you argue the question is not whether marriage here is a right but whether same-sex marriage marriage is -- same-sex marriage is a right. have we never the court's december -- has it ever parsed so finally as to make that kind of a distinction? for example in loving, never spoke in terms 0 the misogyny issues among races. >> i think in loving, your honor -- it's a good example where the parole presumption was we were talking bat man-woman marriage. one of the things the court said when it -- is that it's fundamental to procrating and maintaining the human race. and that's true in the other fundamental right to marry decisions. the block case, for example, talked about how people have a fundamental right to marry and raise children in the traditional family setting. >> why is block not a good example of the course parsing more finely. didn't talk about a dead beat dad. it talked about a fundmental right to get married. so the argument raised by opposing counsel, why does its matter who is claiming the right? it

. >> fortunately, we were constructive on astra zzeneca a upgraded the stock this year in large parte of the things that can get missed is aspects of an early pipeline. the opportunities and pace at which astrazeneca has moved forward, several of its oncology aspects has been one thing. it can be masked, a good pipeline heavily masked by declining earnings when you have blockbuster busts off the patents and has potential value sitting underneath in the pipeline of astrazeneca. >> seamus in the news this puts astrazeneca in play there have been other rumors by others to buy the company, do you see any competing against pfizer or pfizer the only company big enough to take this on? >> the way i look at it, let's consider the companies that would offer the best strategic overlap. that pfizer can pay for and can anybody else realize the same kind of benefits in a combination. it's pretty hard for me to envision a company that would benefit to the same degree pfizer would and that would create an entity that strategically you could end up with three very strong companies, as pfizer is rest

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and 49% think the price of $80 a share is fair and 41% think it's too high and 53% are bearish on astraine. >> how does it fit in? >> they did two other mega mergers with pharmaseia and warner. they account for $218 billion spent on acquisitions. that's bigger than pfizer's market cap at $193 billion. they're not afraid of mega mergers clearly. at the same time with the market cap lower than what they've spent on acquisitions, you have to question whether this is good for pfizer. >> meg, great privilege. interesting to see you on that potential use of cash from overseas. >>> meantime the decision from the state department to delay the keystone pipeline has some regions nervous how fossil fuels will be transported as the north american energy boom surges. >> that's exactly right. today, you have environmentalists rejoicing and some of the supporters that are placing blame and pointing fingers right now. the state department is going to issue this decision in conjunction with president obama on the keystone pipeline. they're saying they will do it after the mid-term elections. a lot of pe

i would pour a little cold water on pfizer and astra zen ka, yesterday's story we had to entertain as result of the sunday times of london. >> bernstein says it can be done? >> it's doable. i want to know, the brokers did not have blow away m and a. do you think in the last 48 hours, did everybody just make their numbers in the investment banking industry? >> it helps. i mean, you know, don't forget at financing here. you have $48.30 a share in cash for allergan as part of the consideration that valeant is offering. that's going to be financed to the likes of barclay's and i think it's rbc if i'm not mistaken. bet a lot of banks want to get involved in that. you will have defense, of course, in the side of allergan. not sure who's been hired up there yet. surprised allergan wasn't on this more unless i'm mistaken. it wasn't just 18 months ago. they came to them, valeant came at the beginning of this year. we kind of knew it. it was out there. they need to do a big deal, valeant so i'm surprised allergan we hadn't heard about them yet. banks will have work. >> we were worried about the

astra fee of the twentieth century the americans thought their hands were untied and they were free to act as they please but now china's become an economic superpower and this game cannot continue to be played by the old. hope that we can find some way to convince the americans that they can't keep playing the role they chose in the ninety's there are some reasonable politicians in america who understand this and the confrontation with russia cannot continue right now we're still seeing the same policy of containment from the one nine hundred forty seven only in a new form of this and we europeans should not become a tool of such policy going and the political standoff is even headed cosmic scale with nasa saying that it's suspending contact with russian government officials is going to take our. this expansion includes nasa travel progression and visits by russian government representatives to nasa facilities bilateral email and teleconferences or video conferences at the present time and the operational international space station at the table these have been exempted in addition mu