. >> david kirk hat trick, i know you have something to say. >> the jerusalem post quote is so apt.her putin is so astonishingly corrupt that is really scary and i think it is endangering the whole world, to be honest here it is total windowdressing what they're doing with right and khodorkovsky. -- what they are doing with puss . >> youand khodorkovsky can't take this as them moving towards democracy. >> the only prison inmates to have let out word thepussy riot people. >> we will continue this conversation with david kirk hat trick and jim taylor of harrison group, a guest host for the hour. we will also be discussing retail. it pretty tepid recovery so far. we will examine this next. ♪ "bloomberg surveillance." >> this isbloomberg surveillance " about the size of staff's christmas tree. >> i wonder where she stores all the lights in the off-season. but that is a situation. that is an excellent "bloomberg surveillance." question. atthe stock market closes one today. you have to trade fast. people are going into the day wearing some other holiday green with s&p futures up. durable

. >> what i found interesting is david kirk patrick was pointing out that you have a lot of tech companiesform of the surveillance practices. but amazon was not one of them. does a company like amazon benefit from these practices? >> the good question. they certainly don't benefit a very large ve cloud computing contract with the central intelligence age sifment i'm not sure why amazon was excluded. what unites these companies is first they're all american companies and second this is all in their economic interest. when you look at this letter i think the first thing to understand is this is economically motivated. this is not a civil liberties statement for its own stake. >> the president is on an airplane for services to nelson mandela. i'm going to guess he is going to be briefed along the way on the ukraine. inform americans about why we should care about the unrest in the ukraine. >> ukraine is a transitional economy and political system. and it has decided in the latest round to essentially enclodse its relations from russia and get further away from the european union. this is not

kirk: hey, pops. that's classic. >> brent: here comes the duke kickoff with a minute remaining. we've been talking about davidutcliffe earlier and the job that he has done. whitfield is the return man. he goes down. a reminder, get your nfl start at 10:00 a.m. espn countdown. catch fantasy football 11:00 a.m. on espn 2. first town and ten, the ball is on the 24 yard line. here's shawn maguire. here's the back-up quarterback for the noles. greene, the freshman the ball carrier. herbie, david cutcliffe's son, chris cutcliffe, his team was in the five a state high school state championship. we get word from george hill that they were beaten in jackson, mississippi tonight. 42-35. >> kirk: high scoring. >> brent: tough night for the cutcliffe family here, second down and nine. florida state wrapping up the acc title. using the full back and that's stevenson, a freshman from florida. here comes david cutcliffe across now to congratulate jimbo fisher. of course, everybody expects to see the noles the night of january 6. head coach down below. let's go to heather cox with the quarterback and the most valuable player