eric gordon, professor at the university of michigan's ross school of business, joins us now to talk about that. welcome back, nice to have you here, eric. >> hello, sue. >> does it really come down to size? are the bigger companies less able to compete and actually have to cut prices than the smaller companies? >> yeah, it seems as if a lot of them lose their agility, their ability to kind of appeal to customers with the newest, best, coolest thing. you know, they make a lot of investments in what made them big yesterday. and customers are fickle. so it can be very difficult for them to keep market share. and, you know, once they start losing market share, it's really tough to get it back. you have to do something like you said verizon is doing, you have to cut prices. and that's another big danger. >> other maybe you buy a competitor, right? >> or you do some consolidation. we've seen a lot of that in the last two years, where the only way you can keep market share or grow is to buy somebody else. and that's pretty risky. that ends up being kind of, you know -- history will show tha

it's a risky proposition. >> eric: gordon what comes after kim jong un?you have the chinese military moving south to try to get the nukes. also, the archives. the chinese don't want us to see the relationship between beijing and pyong yang. it's extremely dangerous. we'll meet in north korea. i hope they workled it out, the chinese don't want to talk about it. >> eric: this is a scary proposition. gordon, thank you, colonel, both. quick reminder, two of bill's books are currently on the "new york times" best seller list, old school, life in the sane lane, number one. and killing the rising sun is number three. you can get either one for free if you sign up or become a billoreilly.com premiere member. tickets available to see bill, dennis miller and jesse watters on tour. details on billoreilly.com. secret backroom deals, pay to play shenanigans when the factor comes back. actor comes right >> eric: in our second personal story segment, an eye opening insider's ngt of the massive corruption in the halls of congress. joining us, republican congressman ken b

three-pointer made by oladipo, that was contact on his hand by eric gordon. this is a four-point play. he should be going to the line with the free throw. that is contact on the right hand as he elevates. >> mike: ne badly misses the >> jeff: roberson back in fact the game. for this ufsioffensive possessi which to me is some what surprising. >> mark: if he touches the ball, if i'm houston, i'm fouling him. even if he goes the set of screens. >> mike: westbrook has it. beverley on him. >> jeff: you could have fouled him on the screen and it's not away from the play measure shot clock down to five. back to westbrook, and tied up and throws it up and throws it away. excellent defense from nene and beverley. >> jeff: absolutely. superior here. >> mark: he is comfortable with making plays. he is not looking to get him the ball like he is not qualifiequa. >> mike: oladipo is on harden. three on the shot clock. harden on the drive. pulls up and just gets it off in time and nails the jumper. a five-point lead for the rockets as the shot clock was expiring. >> mark: g

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. >> eric: joining us now for reaction as gordon chan, former policy analyst and author of nuclear showdownnorth korea takes on the world. and from brunswick maine, fox news military analyst colonel david hunt who is author of the novel without mercy. how worried should we be and take us inside the mentality of kim jong-un? >> within about four years, north korea will be able to make a nuke. they've already got three missiles that can hit the lower 48 states, they just can't put a nuke on them. but a kit they can put a nuke on their noto missile and that can hit the pan and chemical weapons. we talked about chemical weapons in syria since the mid-1990s, north korea has been helping syria on chemical weapons. >> eric: talk about the mentality of actually pressing the button. >> kim jong-un has basically all end of january,eshold of risk. there's been instances of instability. there have been the assassination of his older half-brother but there's also been a demotion of the minister of state security, one of the most important officials. there was a killing of five of his subordinates, ulcer