when the ftc blocked the walgreens/rite aid merger they laid the groundwork for less competition.thought they were preventing the industry from becoming in effect a duopoly instead, that's what they got. and the biggest winner, it's cvs. it's the best of breed stock, a lot more room to run and the reason it's going higher is because it should be. mark in florida, mark? >> hi, jim this is mark with a c, not a k >> okay, fair enough. >> caller: you are the greatest. my question, i own a large cap that pays a 5.4 dividend with new management now in place at the top and a new direction defined, that is through the $300 million stake in 23 & me, will the picture transform to a growth play -- >> i don't know. it won't be that much of a deal. but is the real deal i really like this call. i've been trying to figure out whether to profile the stock or now. i'm glad you brought it up marc, i think gsk works. gary in florida? >> caller: boo-yah love you man how are you doing? >> doing well. how about you? >> caller: doing great my question is molina health care it apparently got good news in

, the ftc is there as the cop on the beat. peter: unfortunately, we are out of time. todd shields covers tech for bloomberg and jonathan edelstein , former fcc commissioner and ceo of the wireless infrastructure association. gentlemen, thank you. >> today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> texas governor greg abbott -- georgia congresswoman were and a conservative conference, organized by eric erickson.

>> it depends how much more the ftc wants.know but we know they wanted to go beyond the limits that have been set which is about $4.3 billion of assets they were willing to divest. that andg to go beyond it will eat into the synergy number. the synergy number is based on consolidating operations with a german-based company and linde, part of the reason why the deal has apart in 2016, linde members on the strategic advisory board and were concerned about jobs in operation cuts. it's not easy to acquire these european companies and cut costs. though this is not the department of justice, we have seen an activist sort of -- iistration challenging don't know if there is an uptick but it feels like. >> in this case, you already saw s deal so it creates an antitrust issue and you are seeing each and sees be willing -- you are seeing agencies be willing to step up and make a deal. are we worried about may be seen deals done for the sake of energy and cutting those positions? at the comes a political concern. we said there would not b

>> guest: well, i think, or you know, the fcc has a role, the ftc has a role. i think competition's important n. an industry like ours, or you have vast amounts of competition. that's why you have such, you know, price competition that basically you can't even price these plans to help pay for the infrastructure. we need to plan other business plans. so if there's ever an issue with competition, absolutely are, the ftc is the cop on the beat. the fcc will be watching over this. fcc will have a number of tools at its disposal to insure there's a competitive environment. >> host: and, unfortunately, we are out of time. todd shields covers tech for bloomberg, and jonathan adelstein, former fcc commissioner, is president and ceo of the wireless infrastructure association. gentlemen, thank you. >> thank you. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was create ared as a -- created as a public service by america's cable television companies. and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public

in the next few months, you you will see the ftc open a number of hearings into antitrust issues. one of the things they will be looking at is tech in particular and whether the sort of antitrust framework right now, whether it should be changed in some way to address this issue that the products they are selling -- are not selling, are free, and do the antitrust laws able to get up at -- are the antitrust laws able to get up at. those are the issues that enforcers need to be considering and will be. emily: what are you going to be watching for, shira? there is such banter around the mark zuckerberg testimony, but the questions from lawmakers were often fairly ignorant. do you think congress will be better prepared and, on the flip side, how will sheryl sandberg and jack dorsey perform under that pressure? shira: i think members of congress will be better prepared. members of the house, which went second, they seemed to have learned from the senators mistakes in questioning mark zuckerberg. even though you are right, zuckerberg did a good job in the hearings, i think it was reveal

now the company will remain shut down while the ftc cometes its investigation.t sellers' t playbook andir website has been taken down and heir phone number is not working. >> all right, doug. you've been busy this afternoon. >> yeah. >> things were just popping up all over the place. >> they were, and when they came extremelyin came down hard. quite a bit in the way of lightning and something we don't need. saw another water rescue and so mu ran. it's raining, don't take that road. that's for sure. >> out there right now we're starting to calm things down, at let around the d.c. metro area. cloud cover and not all that bad now in d.c. we can dry out in d.c. storms around btimore and back towards hagerstown and big tomorrows now to oe east fredericksburg and moving into charles county in towards maryland. you can see m of the region. all dry right now and frederick county, you'll get in on some of the rape and the heavy storms that were coming through, they are startg to die off that will be the general trend now as we move on through the next few hours. e onexce

the ftc says to ask the company to senou proof of whatever contract they say you signed.f they can't provide it, ignore them and contact the ftc, your state attorney general, and your local consumer production 4 ice and of course nbc responds. >> or you, which gets results. how big an issue is is, susan? >> it appears to be pretty common. we found a lot of complaint online. it seems a lot of times people sign up for subscriptions unknowingly when they're interesting online sweepstakes. but again, the ryersonsay they never did that, and those signatures on the card, they said absoluty they ar not ours. >> meanwhile, hgtv has some good programming, you know. >> what do you mean, you've nevereen an episode of hgtv! >> i'm like,ea you never of chip or joanna? nope. >> we believe them. all right. >> we totally do.nk >> tha you, susan. > let's get the word on the weather now. doug has a pool,e's got wings. does life get any better? >> dude, are you even doing anyo work there at all or are you must standing by the barbecue pit? >> doing any work out here? this is the best thing

ftc is there and the fcc will be watching over this. the fcc will have a number of tools at its disposal to ensure there's a competitive environment. >> host: unfortunately we are out of time. todd shields covers tech for bloomberg and jonathan adelstein former fcc commissioner president and ceo of the wireless infrastructure suspicion. gentlemen, thank you. >> guest: thank you. >> guest: thank you. >> let's go through the pre-civil war days or let's go through the civil war days or let's go through reconstruction or let's go through 80 years of legal segregation. and do you think those were days that were pragmatic and adaptive? they were adaptive i didn't see it. i think, and so we have lived through a lot of history in the united states and some of it has turned out pretty well and some of it has not. a month after the supreme court decision when john roberts said racial discrimination in voting was largely a thing of the past north carolina was one of the most progressive states in the south pass a sweeping rewrite of its election l

. >> the ftc said they did omit material information >> they did.re it will be interesting to see what exactly they seek and how they go about doing that in delaware >> guys, this is a major change in tone, whether it be cfius, whether it be china -- >> which has expanded powers and is expected to be signed in to law by the president very soon, i believe, those new cfius powers which are much broader and will potentially allow what has typically been a review only of a foreign buyer of a u.s. corporation. sort of they can get into a lot of different things now. >> i've got to tell you, this would be a major chill because there's going to be a gigantic amount of mergers this year. it is almost as if the government agencies are saying, whoa, this is not such a good thing to have this power and concentration. the justice department's still going after at&t >> do you expect spreads to widen on announced deals or volume to drop or announcements to drop. >> that's a really good question because of how much money was lost on nxp. nxp, by the way, never rea

>> >> for the ftc? >> yeah in the absence of rule-making authority at fcc? >> well, ftc has historically been engaged with that res i don't i don't -- we've never been, i guess i wouldn't say i'm somebody to wants to give agencies unlimited authority to come up with rules and regulations, but, you know, we want to make sure that when we proceed on some of these issues where there is a lot of controversy that whatever comes out of it tries to realize as much consensus as possible. and the ftc is, like i said, it's tasked with the job of dealing with data security and privacy issues and so i guess i would prefer having them doing that instead of the fcc. that model has worked pretty if if it needs to change, we're certainly open to working with but but we -- i don't think we wants to get lots of volumes of regulation out there. >> i'm sorry, only one minute >> okay, thanks, guys. >> okay, thanks, guys. sinchtser sinchtser aretha franklin died today in detroit. at the age of 76, historian michael beschloss tweeted out this picture, aretha franklin receiving an

the ftc said no charges were to be brought against the campaign.s and the john edwards case was more serious because it was campaign funds and alan dershowitz but more importantly the former head of the ftc bradley smith also said there is no crime, no felony, no campaign violation. rob: they hope to get more out of cohen and manafort and someone will sing on something because right now it doesn't sound like they got it. thank you for your help. jillian: 37 after the hour, student vandals intensifying war on confederate statutes. our next guest, a student in the university of north carolina says this anarchy has no place in a civil society, how she is calling out the irony behind the unlawful antics. rob: patriotic attacks working outrage where dozens of american flags honoring loved ones were mowed down. ♪ woman 3: this is my body of proof. man 2: proof that i can fight psoriatic arthritis... woman 4: ...with humira. woman 5: humira targets and blocks a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. it's proven t

any business that receives the scam e-mail should file a report with the ftc. >>> the chp officer killed on the side of interstate 80 was laid to rest. the funeral was in vacaville. >> family, friends and a thousand law enforcement officers you from out california and beyond gathered at the fathers house church in vacaville. they came to say good-bye to kirk griess. he was a great motor cop. he was the best of the best. he was knwas killed friday outside irfield. he pulled over a car and another car ran into him. authorities say the man responsible had been distracted by his cell phone. walker is charged with two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter. the danger of distracted driving. sheldon and helen it's coming. i promise you that. >> griess had been with the highway patrol for 19 years. he leaves a wife and three children. his oldest daughter is training to be a chp officer. >> i'm proud to be his daughter. i love you dad, and don't worry, i'll help your partners take it from here. >> an town. >> kirk was my friend and he will never be forgotten. >> he liked happening people and cou

today the ftc filed charges against congressman christopher collins, his son cameron collins and threehers, alleging that they engaged in insider trading at of the announcement of negative drug trial results in june 2017. the complaint alleged that christopher collins learned of the negative news in his capacity as a member of the board of directors and quickly tipped cameron collins, who held stock. position in the in addition to cameron collins selling nearly 1.4 million of his own shares him he is alleged to have tipped his girlfriend, her mother and her father. thefcc further alleges that fiancee's father, after trading his account further tipped his sibling and a friend. the complaints week discouragement of the ill-gotten gains, interest, penalties and permanent injunctions. they also seek an order barring christopher collins from serving as a director or officer of a public company. it is a privilege that comes with responsibilities. christopher collins is alleged to have abused this privilege and breached his responsibilities by engaging in illegal insider trading. lauren and d

. >>> the ftc is turning it attention on tesla after elon musks wall street shaking tweet that he might take the company private. the sec served tesla with a subpoena after musk claimed he had funding to go private. his tweet may have violated an sec rule that says public statements made by company executives must be true. shares skyrocketed that day. since then, it's moved downward. today tesla stock down nearly 3%. >>> a new drama at the white house. president trump today stripped former cia director john brennan of his security clearance. sarah huckabee sanders read the president's statement this afternoon. it labeled brennan a security threat for making, quote, wild outbursts about the administration. brennan, an nbc news analyst, has been an out spoken critic of president trump. >> is this an effort to try to cow individuals, both inside and outside of the government to make sure they don't say anything either critical of mr. trump or with which he disagrees. >> a lot of speculation about why this happened today, since the date of the initial statement was in july. some reporters w

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>> well, the ftc has historically been tasked with that responsibility. we've never been, i guess i wouldn't say i'm somebody to who would want to give agencies unlimited authority to come up with rules and regulations, but, you know, we want to make sure that when we proceed on some of these issues where there is a lot of controversy that whatever comes out of it tries to realize as much consensus as possible. and the ftc is, like i said, it's tasked with the job of dealing with data security and privacy issues and so i guess i would prefer having them doing that instead of the fcc. that model has worked pretty well, so it needs to change we are open to working with them, but i don't think we want to get lots of volumes of regulation out there. >> only one minute left. >> thanks, guys. >> coming up on c-span, "washington journal" is next followed by cory will endow ski on the trump administration, to the russian investigation and the 2018 elections. later, a meeting from earlier this week with president trump and members of his cabinet. coming up, on tod

the ftc advises everyone not to send money, gift cards or prepaid debit cards to anyone we don't knowhaven't met, even celebrities on social media. >>> just in time for the return of school, edmunds put out its latest list of the best used cars for college students and you and me, too. the top four picks, 2014 honda accord hybrid which ranked highly for its gas mileage, exterior cameras and collision warning system. the 2013 volkswagen gti comes in second. edmunds notes the turbo charged engine and quality inn tear your. the 2014 mazda 3, the least expensive choice our viewers found fun to drive. and the toyota rav4, likes reliability. you want all the safety features. a lot of people buy cheap for an old car. do that for yourself. >>> you may notice a new art installation in one bay area city. >> the cause it's calling >>> coming up tonight, we'll take you back inside the new $2.3 billion transbay terminal for a look at the security features designed to keep everyone safe. >>> outrage at the state capitol. find out why a request to audit the dmv was shot down today. >>> a big break f

the ftc says don't send money, gift cards or prepaid debit cards to someone you haven't met.hat means that beyonce is, in fact, not sending you messages after all. sad. >> bummed out. >>> the 49ers will spend the season celebrating the legend of dwight clark who died after a battle with als and players will wear clark's number 87 on the helmets this season. levi stadiums will have banners to pay tribute to clark. on october 21st the team will unveil statutes depicting his greatest play the catch outside the stadium. it will be 23 yards from a statute of joe montana, the same distance they were during the famous play. there will also be a number of tributes to clark's legacy during the game that day. >>> you can own the house where the on-line ad service craigslist was launched in san francisco. 1 1250 square foot home is on cole street. it was built in the 1900s. craig newmark started business there. he tosold the home in 2005. it's listed for just under $1.4 million. >>> you are never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. more folks going to school today

ftc, the chairman of the ftc says the new rules will make it harder for the chaebol to make mergers oret or the shareholders. ramy: those are the words, but does it have teeth? the influence of the chaebol have been under constant criticism to rein them in. stephen: it is a tricky balance. do you change the practices that have eroded the public trust in korea incorporated or do you basically choke off the golden goose? look at the pie chart that shows the percentage of this chaebols makeup more than half of the weighting of the cost be -- the kospi. they absolutely dominant. six samsung companies are companies just with the samsung name it are in the top 21 in though weightings of the kospi. they make up more than half. tings ofee the weigh samsung electronics alone. the next biggest is sk hynix, which is also a part of the table -- the cahaebol. family-run businesses use their influence at the expense of minority shareholders -- like us. yvonne: thank you. coming up, the yen will weaken another 2.5 percent is the trade war deteriorates. this is bloomberg. ♪ ramy: welcome back. this is

. >> congressional members want to know if verizon violated any ftc rules. lawmakers had an information hearing about what happened. >>> here's the latest on the northern california wildfires. right now the 422,000 acre mendocino complex fire is at 74% contained, though firefighters have the smaller of the two fires fully contained. the carr fire near redding is now 93% contained. and in yosemite, highway 41 is back open after being closed nearly a month. highway 140 remains closed. the fire is now 100% contained. >>> now your accuweather forecast with sandhya patel. >>> and we have obviously been seeing reduced visibility because of some of the smoke from those fires. and also we have some low clouds right near the coast. take a look at live doppler 7. that is obviously playing a role as well, and it's pretty much socked in for parts of the coast. here is a view of the hazy skies from our santa cruz camera. as you will notice the smoke has reached that area as well. smoky skies tonight and into the weekend, a little warmer tomorrow afternoon and it will rem

absolutely, the ftc is there, t he fcc will be watching over the security fcc -- over this. the fcc will have a number of tools. peter: unfortunately, we are out of time. gentlemen, thank you. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. c-span was created as a public service by america's cable services. today, we bring you unfolded coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. announcer: now, health policy scholars talk about the trump administration's decision to expand short term limited duration health insurance plans. under new rules, insurance plans can last up to 12 months and can be renewed for up to 36 months. the cato institute organized this forum. jeff: good afternoon. thank you for joining us for today's capitol hill briefing titled is obamacare now optional? new rule expands consumer protections and a short term health plans. my name is jeff and i am a director of government affairs at the cato institute, a public policy rese

. >> any business that receives the scam e-mail should file with the ftc and notify the san francisco d.a. office. >>> now to korb tra kosta. >> contra costa where five restaurants had to temporarily shut down. rodent droppings forced them down. the health department said all the restaurants complied with the orders to clean up and have reopened. >> we wouldn't allow them to reopen if it wasn't safe to the public. if you wouldn't let your family eat there you shouldn't let other families eat there. >> they are working to make sure the infestation is taken care of. >>> the start of a new school year and on college campuses this is the time of the year when half of the sexual assaults happen. the talk of sexual assault is part of the orientation. >> researchers call this time of the year the red zone. the period between the start of the school year until the thanksgiving break. freshman orientation is underway in u.c. berkeley. this is an exciting time. >> i like how everyone is passionate and driven. that will push me to work hard more, but i want to have fun. >> that experience and fr

and regulators are looking into whether he's violated ftc standards.e will discuss, next. ♪ emily: the u.s.'s s.e.c. is intensifying its scrutinizing of elon musk's provocative tweet about taking the carmaker private. let's get to matt robinson. matt, as i understand it, it is not about the intent to take the company private, it is him saying that funding is secured? matt: with the agency is looking lookingly, they are broadly are the statements about is it factually accurate? there needs to be reasonable understanding that this can be done. what we wrote is the sec is looking more broadly at statements throughout. it is good to point out that this is very preliminary. this is the information gathering stage of what they are looking at. emily: but what could the repercussions be if they violated standards? matt: that is very far off right now. they would need to show this is far off. in these types of cases it tends to focus more on biotech, we have a new drug and we are getting closer. they need a basis for those types of statements. if they found som

this year, the ftc changed the definition of a diamond. they took the word natural out of it. grow a lab grown diamond as a diamond and that is a game changer for the industry. jason: the other game changer was -- who everyone knows in this business, entering the lab grown sector in a major way. >> debeers, a diamond is forever, maybe a diamond was made a couple of years ago. business is mined diamines and as they saw small startups having success, they came in and undercut them. brandre launching a called lightbox, low-cost diamond jewelry to compete with self purchase items like accessories and skin care. a normal lab grown diamond is mined30% less cost than a diamond. devere's are 50%. taylor: i wonder why the shift. they feel like they are cannibalizing some previous business or are responding to something customers want because of sustainable issues? >> the competitors think they are trying to undercut them. they say they are responding to customer demand. they have no issues with environmental disruption or child labor issues. they are cheaper, but millennials don't seem

huawei is appealing to the ftc for help as it fights limits to u.s. markets.t says restrictions based on national security concerns harm citizens by decreasing competition. huawei and zte have come under increased scrutiny over concerns their devices could be used for spying purposes. global news 24 hours a day, on air and at tictoc on twitter, followed by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am jessica summers. this is bloomberg. ramy: thanks very much. let's take a closer look at fresh closing records on wall street. there were a lot of fluctuations along the way. we will bring in su keenan to talk. tech stocks and optimism played a role, but the markets barely eked out the record gain. a: eked is the word we used, fraction of a percentage, but it was good for the bulls. the dollar advancing. the 10 year yield, moving closer to 2.9%. 3% is the big red flag. tech put the nasdaq higher. the nasdaq 100, a heavy concentration of tech stocks, and the russell 2000, continuing to break records. the story for best buy, its forecast r

. >> maybe it is not the fcc, but they have given more power to the ftc. >> i think one, they're makingmises, and it is hard to define what the promises to consumers are. google says we're going to give you the best information they said a lot how they want search results to be vetted news sources, not fake news they're making promises, they're trying to keep them. are they perfect we all know they're absolutely not perfect. they have a lot of work to do. >> i think that's a good point i think the problem with facebook and google and twitter is that their values are they're pursuing scale if they take a stance against a certain content, stand to anger someone on one side of the issue and stand to lose users. that's something that they won't come out and say, but in talking academics or content moderation, this comes up over and over again. facebook has strong values but its values are growth for the company, growth for the platform, and mark zuckerberg talked about forming a single lar global community that's never been done before. >> as focused as we are on the conversation in this co

sound crazy, well in 2012 the ftc conducted a major study that showed that one of every five americans

sometimes, regardless of who is in the white house, i think the statue in front of the ftc called man controlling trade, it seems like whoever the resident is, whatever party, trade is regarded as a rough beast that needs to be controlled. you can see that in these quotes from president obama and president trump. president obama talks about globalization is a phenomenon and we want to make sure it works for us, not against us. and trade agreements are the way we do that. president trump, the language is quite different, but at the end of the day, some of the meaning is the same. president trump talks about having tough and fair agreements that will grow our economy, return millions of jobs to our shores. presidents want to use trade agreements to shape globalization. administration looks upon trade a little bit differently, i think it is fair to say, then its predecessors. a lot of that seems to come from manufacturing. i often think about steve bannon during the campaign talking about ironworks and shipyards. there is a sense of a desire to bring back the manufacturing days of your,

the ftc says don't send money, gift cards or prepaid debit cards to someone you don't know or haven'tasn't beyonce sending you a direct message. >> i know. >> i thought she cared about me. >>> your morning money report, and a big boost for a san francisco-based yelp. >> the company's stock surging after a better than expected earnings report. yelp reporting a net income of $10.7 million or 12 cents per share. that is up 9 cents per share from a year ago. the increase is being credited to a boost in advertising revenue and sent stock soaring up nearly 17% in premarket trading overnight. as a result, we are seeing their numbers go up this morning. can we take a look at the big board? there we are. we're a little bit down. not following yelp's lead quite yet. global markets were mixed overnight because of concerns over trade wars, sanctions and changes in the currency markets. >>> the price of a hotel room could go up in palo alto. the city is putting a measure on the ballot to raise the tax from 14% to 15.5%. palo alto on-line reports white bring in about $2.5 million and that money wou

groups and public when 9 commissioners such the planning commission and the board of supervisors or this ftc commission they help us in city hall this is a beautiful building it really is the inner workers of the building you feel you're in the heart of government and it's exciting to be part of that >> good morning. good morning! all right. i am mohammed nuru. i serve as a city's director of public works. and the chairman of the transbay joint powers authority board of directors. on behalf of our board, i want to welcome you to the salesforce transit centre and the salesforce park. i will also be introducing you today to our masters of ceremony. the former mayor, willie brown, in a few moments to begin the program. before that, i want to start by personally thanking all of you for coming. you have been waiting for this day for a long time. you all received a commemorative pin and that is our official opening date. august 11th, 2018. that is eight years to the date of the actual groundbreaking for the center. four years ago, i had the honor of being appointed to the tjpa board by mayor ed le

through the eu with less trouble than they thought and have more trouble than they thought with the ftc in the united states, which could include more divestitures. so this is not over. but it's a big industrial stock and it's important to some of the big indices that track the sectors. >> unsexy, but something we all need meanwhile, facebook shares are lower as the company was accused of violating the fair housing act. this h this is bizarre. facebook and hud >> what you're talking about is that landlords and sellers were able to advertise on the site and they had discriminatory housing policies i'm not sure it's up to facebook to go and look at. to me, it's more of a situation that everybody wants to take a shot at facebook because t going to help their career i think that's one of the issues with the stock frankly, that you had arrogance when zuckerberg testified both in u.s. and in europe and now it's come back the haunt them so i wouldn't buy the stock here i still think when you take tma down low 30s, you've got an issue. >> you think they're going to keep continuing to be under a

recording asalways thought, the ftc welcomes input for other >> the majority of which has been spent in the middle east. beyond his general diplomatic and policy expertise for which he is widely respected, he has extensive management experience through serving as chief of mission at various diplomatic posts abroad. that background is invaluable. the undersecretary for political affairs is the number three person at the department after the deputy secretary of state. the p undersecretary also serves as crisis manager for the department and serves as an adviser to the secretary for all major personnel decisions, department policies and interagency communication. in addition to those duties, the undersecretary oversees all of the geographic bureaus in the department as well as the bureau for international organizations and must, therefore, manage our financial and personnel resources between the bureaus themselves and our diplomatic footprint around the globe. in the past it has often seemed that the undersecretaries for political affairs and management would make these decisions togeth

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centralizing a political message to however many, more than 200 stations i think it will be if they get the ftc approval for this, to 200 stations, you have one of the great political must think messaging machines in the world. >> laura: it was an abuse of the media for sinclair to air these homogenized promos to local markets. but with a legacy media coordinate messages across local markets, it is apparently no problem at all. tomorrow, over 350 papers organized by "the boston globe" will print coordinated editorials to denounce the president for his fake news comments and media trash talk. sounds like one of the great political messaging machines and the entire world, if you ask me. marjorie prichard at "the boston globe" told cnn, "we have some big newspapers but the majority are smaller markets. all are enthusiastic of standing up to the terms assault on journalism." what we are witnessing is the fall on politicization of the media. as steve bannon once had come in the media have become the opposition party and that is a pity. i think it is ever disastrous g of the electric in 2016 company

bitcoin is hanging tough despite rejections from the ftc and brian kelly says the action could be a bullish sign for the crypto universe. he will explain, but first we start with the words that raise a lot of eyebrows on wall street today. >> i'll tell you what, if i ever got impeached i think the market would crash. i think everybody would be very poor because without this thinking, you would see -- you would see numbers that you would not believe in reverse that is right. president trump does seem to have the whole world in his hands or at least the whole stock market the s&p 500 is up 34% since he was elected, has gained a whopping $6 trillion in market cap during that time and so as the drama around the president continues to build, is this stock market rally really all hinged on trump and if he does get impeached or resigns, and of course, that is a big if, what would that mean for the market tim? >> no one wants to hear my politics and i don't think anyone wants to hear on a market show to hear the politics. to me what caused the market's move and what was more important was when we f

yes, collusion is a crime for the sec and the ftc, proscribing certain antitrust behavior. but like i said, that's out of context, okay? what we're dealing with here is a distinction, okay, without a difference, okay? what does that mean? it's a big deal. it's that he's saying they're different things but really they are the same. the media is stuck on this word game, a gotcha game. the key's being missed. it's a distinction without a difference. why? the key is the behavior, not the word. therefore, while rudy is right, this tweet by the president is wrong. collusion is not a crime, but that doesn't matter because there was no collusion except by crooked hillary and the democrats. how? how can rudy be right and trump be wrong? here's why. the behavior. the behavior is what matters to the legal analysis, not the word. why? because the term itself not being present as a statute is irrelevant. the side note to trump's tweet is does trump get that he just said in a tweet that what hillary did with the dossier is not a crime? to his mind, you think he believes that? nope. he wo

linde says the ftc asking for more asset sales for the planned movement with praxair. december 2016 when they struck that deal the two companies are now evaluating those requests. also turkey's currency has reached a record low against the dollar this morning. that comes after the white house said it was reviewing their duty-free access to the u.s. market last week turkey imposed retaliatory tariffs on u.s. goods in response to u.s. tariffs on steel and aluminum. >> you said duty >> i did >>> now back to the markets. let's take a look at -- what do you think, morgan? would you -- you wouldn't say that on "squawk alley," would you? we're very immature. i'm very immature. 20 now up on the dow 13 and change on the nasdaq. up 2.5 on the s&p. joining us now is doug ramsey. worried about doug he's at leuthold group you got one foot out the door. and barry james of james investment research. so i'll start with you, doug why do you -- i mean, is that fair to say? you've got maybe one and a half feet out the door? that the fun is gone the punch bowl we don't have -- i don't kno

it would be the doj, the ftc or fcc that could add additional regulation.re are other things the white house could do. again, this at the moment just looks like a lot of talk. >> i think where the tech companies are right now is similar to where the banks were during the financial cries in -- crisis in terms of a -- dagen: meaning a government bailout? >> not a government bailout, in terms of a regulatory perspective, not understanding where the winds are turning from both parties and not getting out ahead of a lot of these stories. they continue to be the, the big media, tech companies, sen tendo be reactive still. i call for them and you have as well to start enforcing more self-regulatory matters. if they don't, the government will regulate for them. >> the government has no idea how to get this right. >> that will stop them, ar. >> once you put a bunch of politicians in charge of speech and the tech industry, facebook, twitter, google, it's going to turn into a fight over who gets the biggest political advantage as opposed to how to protect the most fre

the ftc is accusing directv of deceptive advertising regarding lower promotional prices the judge saidc has not established that the ads were misleading. >>> the big other story of the morning, elon musk going on the record in an hour-long interview with "the new york times." he said the past year has been what he said in his own words as the most difficult and painful year of his career he also gave more details on that infamous tweet about taking the company private and, quote, funding secured. musk said it was an attempt at being what he called transparent. he also admits no one saw it or reviewed it before he posted it on twitter as he was making himself to a plane he had driven himself to the airport to get to nevada where he was going to visit the giga factory that day he added that he knew that the price that he was offering, $420, that number associated with pot the number that he was actually going to offer was $419 but he rounded up because it sounded like better karma. musk specifically said several times that he was not stoned and that being stoned was not good for producti

we are improving our see factor using more of the ftc. we have increased up by 3% in the last year.prove to revenue management. but still, very attractive airfares out there. airfares are 14% in real terms domestically below where they were 15 years ago. profitsaking record even with those low airfares. we also see our transformation program helping to offset the introduction of the new andnology like the 787's the focused feel program -- improvement program. there is a range of initiatives that are helping us cope with the higher fuel prices that is why we have the ability to substantially recover. ramy: i want to switch gears. we also have to talk about what is happening in camera -- camera -- they did not have kind words for you last year. saying qantas to stay out of things like legislation happening in the capital. now it is a second challenge that there is a possibility this might happen. -- d you welcome we have gooduld -- relationships with all the individuals within the politics. have a relationship with peter. we do not take sides or the individuals. we are the national ca