i didn't realize, larry ellison is worth with i think $150 with -- billion.tely in the mix. and red bird's run by a very, very talented banker. i've known him for a while. knows the media business very well. he used to work for goldman sachs, starts his own private equity firm. the real kicker is that redbird brings management. as of now, they are -- you know, this deal probably is theirs if they want it. there's a few levers to -- is to dot and ts to cross, and we'll get to that in a second. he brings a lot to it because he has two really good media people. he has jeff shell who, you know, ignominious exit from, you know, cue the inappropriate behavior with a female reporter, but, you know, again, smart guy. jeff zucker, former head of cnn. these guys know the business. and from what i understand, if this does happen, shell definitely plays some role and possibly if even zucker. liz: both of these guys are seasoned -- >> smart guys. liz: -- tv news executives. >> we should point out a lot could go wrong. here's why. shari redstone, who owns paramount through

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and i was told that if larry ellison, who has been talking to trump has been going down in mar-a-lago. they've been flirting a little bit. he's a white whale kinda donor said to trump if you, put tim scott as your vice president. all right, you $100,000,000 check trump would do it and i think for even people like vivek ramaswamy, i don't know if you saw the latest bloomberg reporting, but he's talking about putting vivek in dhs for him. he sees that he's an immigrant or a child of immigrants, and he thinks he's not a white person. so that might be a signal when he cracks down with his immigration policy. but really vivek can also raise money for him. and so there's a bait comes from tech world, vc, wall street. so a lot of these positions, john paulson, he really wants a job. he wants to be the treasury secretary. he's a hedge fund billionaire. he's throwing a lot of events ends for trump and palm beach, bringing along his billionaire friends to fund raise. and all these people, they've come around and they're sort of kissing the ring, but trump is looking at them binging like can you

larry ellison. i don't want anybody going out into the sun. if you do a cinch for heatstroke or heat exhaustion out here with the water, we've got, that means you're finished. so we'll work only at night or in the morning. things be a little ragged. i know, but we'll manage, all right. if we keep our heads and go on the water supplies here can figure out a way to repair the radio. i'll try, sir. we'll take a fix with the sextant. this thing just where we are. be sure you keep the navigators. quick. round up, george. okay. now, first of all, the water is going to be rationed. that is a big worry. water. and without it, nothing else mattered. as the brine came to just 27 gallons sounds a lot does about 27 gallons of water. but listen that to be split equally with all the crew except the two wounded men who would need more than the others in order to live for these others one for a man for a day that last time exactly ten days and the first 12 hours. nobody outside of the two casualties would get one single drop to drink to the planning. but and

harry ellison's company is going to be a -- larry ellison's company is going to be a big beneficiary, oracle wasn't first to the cloud, and what they were able to do that was different was they built a cloud infrastructure, they actually built a lot of autonomous capabilities in their database, and they started moving up the stack. and oracle has probably some of the best enterprise soft is ware products, and those are actually getting autonomous capabilities, a.i. capabilities and ml, and companies that are using oracle are going to see the full benefit from the cost savings as well as the predictive insights. jack: and google, which has seemed to be behind microsoft in this race, but you think there are good things ahead. >> yeah, i kind of want to correct that misconception. google is still ahead of microsoft in a.i., microsoft has just been really good at consumerrizing the messaging and marketing and package of a.i., making it available to everyone. i think google is trying to wait a little bit longer than microsoft to get things right before they launch, but microsoft jumped the

to write me $100,000,000 check because that larry ellison wrote him at $30 check back in the senate. >> it's got one yeah. exactly. so he's trying to bring in big hitters like john paulson, a hedge fund billionaire, who wants to treasury secretary position paulson holds parties for him, fundraisers and palm beach and he can bring in all his friends so trump is playing footsie with all these people. and what can you dangle appointments. it's typically used to be ambassador ships which you brought up off air before, but it can be as anything is like the vice presidency. i mean, you have your own donor base. can you bring them along? >> i think >> personally, based on my reporting, trump has the evangelical base he's got his maga people. what do you really needs is money. and the other issue obviously is abortion. that's something that's on his monitor. >> love to point out, of course, that hillary clinton outraised them in 2016 and they still want to feed her the equation entirely different. he was running as a purely insurgent candidate at the point new to the scene the money game i t

donald trump said how great larry ellison, his good friend, is, that was a deal because they didn't, up the secret sauce. that is where we have been as of now. if there's a give up of that apps, microsoft comes back to the table, steve mnuchin is talking about buyers and he has to raise -- i don't put anything by anybody who has been in the nexus of government and finance, that is the man for all deals. blackstone is the big private equity firm that has ties in china and tiktok, bike dance, that is where we are. they will probably not give that up. what happens? the thing is likely to be voted, the senate is likely to vote along the lines of the house. the senate is controlled by the democrats. trump's attempts to save the deal, to argue this thing on libertarian and first amendment grounds, he is saying they shouldn't man tiktok. he's being attacked by his own people. steve bannon is out there attacking donald trump right now. remember him, perpetually unkempt political advisor steve bannon. so what happens? my guess, it gets voted on by of the senate, looks like they will say this

the communist chinese i believe you when you say it i would not have a problem if elon musk or larry ellisonhoever an american someone who would that would remove those spy applications from that site if they were to buy from the communist chinese food import obit what makes you so convinced it just by mechanism and why is it imperative that the american people understand this. >> tiktok is not the issue it's not a company it's a social media app at that app is powered by an algorithm that picks the videos you see and literally reads your mind it knows what you like before you know you like it it picks the videos and drives the content it's the golden goose of the whole operation and that's owned by a company named bite dance that can and he is a chinese company i don't know who the board of directors or shareholders are every company in china has to comply with the active national security law in china which says that you must do you must give us data you must do with your algorithm whatever we tell you to do if the chinese calmness party goes to bite dance and says we want to eat to change

buying it, donald trump's animist everything tech but he is best friends or good friends with larry ellisono the deal switched to oracle where oracle didn't exactly buy it but used -- in any event held up in courts, didn't happen, investor never happened. the investiture did not happen, talking to bankers and reminding me the chinese didn't want to give the algorithm, the secret sauce of tiktok which essentially allows when you go on haters to your preferences, your likes and you are bombarded with things, you are very big into polka dancing, didn't you tell me that? so you will get pulled car dance videos constantly on tiktok. on the other hand, i am into stuff that very meta and intellectual. so i get the marinara intellectual marinara recipes. the chinese don't want to give that up. i'm talking bankers involved in potentially, with potential buyers of this. they are microsoft, oracle, they will all line up and by this thing if they get the secret sauce out of it. the chinese don't want to give that up. why don't what they want to give it up? when example your prior guest mentioned with g

making sure america remains -- >> under trump -- i don't know where that went serious interests larry ellison i know. >>. mark: oracle microsoft in running for it i guess biggest question i have with this whole issue is how do you force the sale what are the consequences if the sale does not go through? then your banned, hild to assume i don't understand exactly how that works there has to be a number of potential suitors in the u.s. we can gather maintain that data here, and u.s. government can -- [laughter] >>. maria: rebuilt with u.s. technology we are taking a short break, the number of gotaways coming into this country, is increasing, mens raising for new wave of venezuelan gangs the gangsters ready to cross into the country we are looking at that from national security standpoint, with doug fisher and reaction you are watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business, stay with us. ♪ -- ♪ maria ♪ ♪ et lost in investment research. get help with j.p morgan personal advisors. hey, david! ready to get started? work with advisors who create a plan with you, and help you find the right inve

now he is considering a major donation to the trump campaign, as is oracle cofounder larry ellison. scott before his campaign folded in november and in 2016, a pack that he helped fund spent millions opposing trump but as senator scott dropped out and endorsed trump it looks like ellison is following as well. then there's jeff yass, we reported the largest shareholder, yass who holds billions of dollars in the parent company of tiktok may have also influenced trump's shift of opposing a band of it but yass was a never trumper at one point and he was featured in a new york times article in 2016 about how the ultra wealthy word of refusing to donate money to trump, now as bloomberg reports, yass is one of the few names who is reported to be trump's treasury secretary. in august, axios reported the gop mega-donors were flashing a bat signal in the sky willing to give money to anyone willing to beat trump. by december, as politico put it, the donors started waking up, they insisted biden's perspective tax policies are forcing their hand to support trump and while they hold soft moral ob

also we heard from the chairman, larry ellison, oracle increased its business with movement it's actuallyd. up nearly 10%. let's talk about kohl's -- that. lauren: yeah. ashley: reported before the bell with. how did they do? lauren: so they returned to profitability, but the forecast was bad. the shares are down 2% like macy's, like in order if strom is, they're warning of -- nordstrom, they're warning of muted in 2024. kohl's has a lower income shopper e. their sales are down for 8 quarters in a row, but they managed to eke out a surprise profit because of better inventory management, keeping costs in line and, of course, they have a brand partnership with sephora, store within a store kind of concept, and that's working out for them. ashley: yeah. to o.k. completely changing subjects now, lauren, what about cyber truck owners? apparently, they're trying to flip the cars for profit, right? lauren: you can't do it. if you're found guilty of it, you will be fined $50,000. basically, or you'll be sued by tesla. when an owner puts down a $100 deposit for a cyber truck, they also sign a cont

. >> son of larry ellison one of the richest men in the world. who is behind some of this stuff.l. not saying it will happen. for all i know apollo comes in with 22 billion, i have no idea. for a private equity firm to buy something like this would be interesting, right? sounds like it is a little bit pie-in-the-sky. anyway this is where we are. management synergies are here, shell, bakish, friends, going to the super bowl chatting. what else could you ask for. liz: hordeuvers. we have look at new kid on the block of a spiking high as $57.80, reddit right now is at 49.91, still a gain of 46%. okay, here we go. apple, we have to look at that. it is still down for the count, down about 4% after the department of justice hit the company with a sweeping antitrust lawsuit. apple intends to fight the doj probe. we can put up its statement here. the lawsuit threatens who we are, our principles, kind of technology you expect from us could be hindered. there is somebody scooping up shares in the last few hours. he is trader keith fitz-gerald. keith, what were you buying, how much and why?

the stock is oracle and i was wondering if larry ellison's got that going, working into the a.i. type of work now. >> absolutely. well, phil, i think -- appreciate you saying i did a great job. i didn't do a good job on or ra cam. they screwed up the quarter twice and i couldn't take it anymore and totally delivered in the last one. the stock is up big because of a.i. and jensen and nvidia mentioned it so it's probably going higher. i thank you for the kind words. i wish i had done better. alex in florida. alex. >> caller: hey there, jim. my question is about ticker gold, barrick gold. >> i've been disappointed. i mean gold has had a big run here and you've not made any money with barrick and i have to tell you that is incredibly disappointing to me. it's been -- it's been -- i don't know what to say. it has a 2.5% yield. that's the best thing i can say right now. wow, let's go to elizabeth in florida. elizabeth. >> caller: hi, jim. i was wondering what are your thoughts on walmart. is this a good time to buy? [ moo ] >> buy, buy, buy. >> it's a hard time to find when not to buy.

. >> i would not have a problem if elon musk or larry ellison, whoever, an american or somebody thatwould remove those spy applications from from rem that site if they were to buy that that from the communist chinese that only a part of it. what makes you so convincedt wh that it'you sos spy mechanism a is it imperative that american people understand this? well, tiktok is not issue. tiktok is a company. it's a social media app. that app is powere d by anby a algorithm that picks the videos. you see. it literally readsrithm that your mind you and it knows what you like before you even know you like it. it picks the video beforknow yoe it drives the content. it's the golden goose of the whole operatiocontent n that's e by a company named bytedance. that company, bytedance, is ae chinese company. i don't care who's on the board of directors. i don't care who their shareholdersi don'he are. has every company in china has p to 2017h thh an ap national security law of china. na you mustgive uays do. you must give us the data and you must do with your dogorith yout dom whatever we tl you t

larry ellison's sportive president trump. for president trump and that's going on to try to make it safe, safer, make it if this doesn't pass there's still a lot of issues going forward, whether the senate will take it up there there have been legal challenges that have one and it's a long road before this happens, but eventually we have to figure out what to do about this. this company and companies like it using being able to have access to our our world here in the united states. and we can't have reciprocal access to. there's that's something people do need to pay attention to. social media sites aren't allowed in china. >> ours aren't certainly no i've been i've been in beijing when you walk outside and who leave your vpn network, you can't get on >> facebook, you can't get on certain apps over there in china. i mean, it just doesn't happen. when i listened to marc stewart reporting from beijing a few moments ago and he was talking about the complaints coming from the foreign ministry about antibusiness practices. i was

we had a great discussion about how maybe larry ellison could protect american data from chinese communist influence. but tiktok, the representative in israel, quit the company, because tiktok is being used in a way to basically destroy the jewish state. this is not just about individuals. i worry that in 2024, our democracy will be attacked again through these platforms by foreign actors. we are exposed. and a.i. is just starting. so to my colleagues, we are here for a reason. this committee has a -- a history of being tough, but also doing things that need to be done. this committee has risen to the occasion. there is more that we can do but to the measures of this committee, let's insist that our colleagues rise to the occasion, also. with the hundred and 18thcongress, we have the votes that can fix this problem. all you can do is cast your vote at the end of the day, but you can urge the system to require others to cast their vote. mr. chairman, i will continue to work with you and everybody on this committee to have a day of reckoning on the floor of the united states senate. thank yo