. >> jeffrey pierce, managing on --is going to appear at 2:00 p.m. eastern.omberg data fines consumer discretionary countries including retailers running out of cash at a faster rate. hasrge in online shopping raised retailers default. in june after a three-month decline. that is the latest bloomberg business flash. >> in a retaliatory moves, putinn president vladimir says it must cut staff at an embassy in moscow and other facilities by 755 people. -- this retaliation is long overdue. if the u.s. decides to move forward to further deterioration, we will respond in kind. we will mirror this. we will retaliate. who does this benefit? seem like pulling people out of the unthinkable is not to russia's advantage. >> i think that putin believes he showed a very robust response to the sanctions. he's also probably calculating .hat the u.s. administration he said this in a television interview that russia would not take any further measures and he hoped they would draw line. >> is this an overreaction? at some point with the people have to be allowed back into the o

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jeffrey pierce. you don't have to earn a living. you're a writer. >> that's true.member getting an album to crank it up. [ laughter ] >> that the neither here nor there. you know who won the week? the congresswoman barbara lee. she got the patent voted in 2001, which means we'll have a debate in the congress about whether or not we want and long and lonely time. and when it passed spontaneously. >> see what happens when black wop men lead? . [ laughter ] >> hole low. >> she is amazing and it's a great choice. the lead responder for "playboy" did something i've been waiting for journalists to do in that briefing forever. >> you're claiming everybody right here, right now, this administration has done that, as well. why in the name of heavens in one of us write replaceable and any one of us, the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel. there is no option other than that -- >> i think -- >> we're going to ask you questions and you're here to provide the answers and what you did is inflammatory to people all over the country that look and say see once again, t