and starbucks successfully opposed a head tax to alleviate the dire homelessness problem in the emerald city will be joined by seattle city councilwoman to schama so as one who holds no punches in her critical to critique about amazon and other big businesses all of that ahead but first let's have some headlines the brave new world of media mergers has arrived and as predicted and comcast has offered a sixty five billion dollars deal all cash for twenty first century fox the bid sets up a fight with the walt disney company which also seeks to acquire fox disney c.e.o. robert iger as essentially wage his future in the c.e.o. position on winning the media war adding to the drama mr iger also is believed to have held a corporate grudge against comcast since twenty fourth when comcast tried to acquire disney the decision by a federal judge to allow the merger of media giants eighty. time warner earlier this week was widely expected as we discussed on the program yesterday in detail to lead to an unprecedented level of consolidation of media ownership with bidding wars just like this one and more

city as the u.s. and u.n. urge the saudi emerald and coalition to call their battle for control. welcome to the program a defiant donald trump is sticking to his zero tolerance policy on immigration but the effect his stand is having on young children remains in the spotlight two days ago the u.s. president signed an executive order to stop separating youngsters from their parents at the border but there's still confusion on how to reunite an estimated eight hundred children elevation has more from washington d.c. . for one mother the pain of separation over seven year old darwin was taken from beata here me here at the border in arizona. they come from guatemala no after more than a month she could finally hold them again she sued the government for some time and one day when i started crying when i saw him because he's the only child i have i think god because i have him here with me he's now sad but nobody's going to separate us again. but though donald trump signed an executive order halting the separation of children from the families those ins still face the pain of separat