i am carol massar. jason: i am jason kelly. erg business week on the radio every day from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. carol: you can also find us online at bloombergbusinessweek.com. jason: a few things going on may play a big role in the upcoming midterm elections. about a month away. carol: we spotlight the creation of a quiet army of 16,000 liberal resistance volunteers. you heard that right -- 16,000. they have been secretly recruited into a democratic dirt digging operation run by a smart former hatchet man for president obama. jason: we caught up with the author of devil for the details. reporter: he is a dork underbelly. basically what these people do is dig for dirt on political opponents and then surreptitiously try to get that into the press as a way of shaping a negative story line that will impugn a political candidate. and weaken voters support. we have this enormous and secretive dark money group being funded by mysterious democratic donors that has marshaled a huge army of thousands of volunteers to dig into the background

i'm carol massar. jason: i'm jason kelly. 're joining you from bloomberg headquarters in new york. carol: this week, the future of retail. e-commerce giants amazon and walmart are after global expansion. next stop on the battleground, india. jason: plus, sears files for bankruptcy. why ceo eddie lampert couldn't keep the retail giant afloat. carol: first, to the politics section. it is a story that has dominated the conversation this weekend -- this week, and that is disappearance and the suspected killing of a journalist in istanbul, which has set off a geopolitical reaction as governments are looking for answers from riyadh. jason: it is a fast-moving story. bloomberg reporters on the ground throughout the region. in the magazine, the story is titled "damage control in the kingdom." editor riad hamade was here in new york this week and helped us put into perspective. riad: right now, i think it is in limbo in the sense of the plan, vision 2030, that the prince has espoused. he gave it the name of vision 2030. he wanted to tr

i am carol massar. >> and i'm jason kelly. we have a business exclusive on an army of 16,000. -- in a subversive side five sci-fi movie, it is like the united states. it turns out women are not the play it safe investors that they have always been presumed to be. >> bloomberg businessweek has uncovered the most significant supply chain attack. >> the stunning discoveries are ace -- the subject of an investigation involving 30 companies including government contractors. >> and china is behind it. let us get to jordan robertson from washington. reporter: a special unit from -- ahina liberation army

i am carol massar. jason: i am jason kelly. carol: as donald trump criticizes the u.s.entral bank again, here help paul volcker dealt with presidential pressure. jason: tom barrack went all in for donald trump's campaign but now he has been shut out of the white house. carol: the investigation into the death of a saudi arabia journalist continues to stir up international outrage. the crisis has gone beyond the single incident, now impacting the political order. the senior reporter for europe and middle east wrote about it. he joined us from london to talk about it. >> he was the president of turkey, a country that has more journalists in jail than any other, which articulated this. it was not as one might have expected, the president of the united states and the white house making this kind of statement about the "washington post" columnist that was killed in what is still unclear but rather grim circumstances. carol: what are people saying about that flip of the role, the u.s. speaking up for human rights and then to have turkey having so many journalists in jail and t

carol: i'm carol massar.the of the u.s. dollar. is it time for regime change? jason: speaking of regime change, how amazon and netflix are raising the stakes against traditional tv studios. carol: the first, general motors and honda are teaming up to promote self driving cars. will take a 6% stake in gm's self driving unit, another $2n spend billion on deploying autonomous vehicles with jim. with: gm's president spoke bloomberg's david westin. thisr mission is to deploy technology safely on a massive scale and having another partner on board that brings tremendous resources is another big step in that direction. point $25nvested two billion, honda is bringing $2.75 billion to the table and huge amount of resources. talked after the softbank investment, you set your goal was to have a real autonomous vehicle deployed in calendar year 2019. what does this deal due to that date? does it move it up at all? dan: that remains the goal. we are working as fast as we can to get to that point. the main item to deployme

i'm carol massar. jason: i'm jason kelly. carol: the future of retail.-commerce giants amazon and walmart are after global expansion. next stop on the battleground, india. jason: plus, sears files for bankruptcy. why eddie lampert couldn't keep the retail giant of load. the politicsto section. it has dominated the conversation this week, the disappearance and the suspected killing of a journalist in istanbul, which has set off a geopolitical reaction as governments are looking for answers from ray at. story -- the story is titled damage control in the kingdom. riad hamade was here in new york this week and helped us put into perspective. riad: right now, i think it is in limbo and the sense of the plan, vision 2030, that the prince has espoused. he wanted to transform the country economically and socially. people aret a lot of now questioning whether he is going to be able to push through with that. you see efforts also by the u.s. and you see the trip from pompeo. you get the sense that one aim behind all that is to ensure that it does not derail comple

i'm david westin right here with carol massar. and here we have the anchor of bloomberg businessweek. andoll: right to be here what another interesting day. david: another interesting day. carroll: let's get to the board because david mentioned we're seeing the impact already today in terms of the setup. yesterday, we had quite a rally with good tech news. saw the markets with a very different tone. terms of today's session. take look at the s&p 500 futures down about 1.2%. to go look at some of the other market internals. moving a little bit higher. crude oil down 1.5% and the 10-year note will be the gdp report. you can see that taking a little bit -- taking a little bit lower. the first read on gdp growth in the u.s. in the third quarter. at 10:00 a.m., we get the sentiment numbers and looking ahead to sunday, resolve those for the next president in a runoff election between far right former army captain and leftist fernando had died it. and now the bloomberg takeaway. a bloomberg cross asset reporter. i will show that $8.3 tri

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i am carol massar. jason: and i'm jason kelly. we are joining you from bloomberg headquarters.: a businessweek exclusive on an army of 16,000 and no, this is not a subversive sci-fi movie, it is the state of politics in the united states. jason: it turns out women are not the play it safe investors that they have always been presumed to be.

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i'm carol massar. jason: i'm jason kelly. you from bloomberg headquarters in new york. carol: this week, the future of retail. e-commerce giants amazon and walmart are after global expansion. next stop on the battleground, india. jason: plus, sears files for bankruptcy. why ceo eddie lampert couldn't keep the one-time retail giant afloat. carol: first, to the politics section.

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taylor: our own carol massar spoke with the woman driving these changes, ww president and ceo mindy grossmano be the most livable partner that you have on the planet. we do not dictate what you have to eat. you can eat anything you want on our program. but it fits into your life, and i think that is really important for people today, this idea of livability, this idea of your family healthy with you. what we talk about is if you have amazon for shopping and netflix for entertainment and spotify for music, we want to be your everything app for wellness, but we also want to support you with community. an ecosystem is the way you need to think about it. we are science led, technology enabled my community supported. carol: i know you are on alexa. tell me what other things you need to embrace, what you need to do. mindy: we have invested significantly. we are a technology experience platform with a human experience overlay. that has been important. i think the brands of the future will take technology plus meaning and help people live more fulfilled lives. and that is what we are trying to do. a

i'm david westin right here with carol massar.g businessweek. andoll: right to be here what another interesting day. david: another interesting day. carroll: let's get to the board because david mentioned we're seeing the impact already today in terms of the setup. yesterday, we had quite a rally with good tech news. saw the markets with a very different tone. terms of today's se