for more on this issue, we turn to megan mccracken with the u.c. berkeley school of law's death penalty clinic. and dr. joel zivot of emory university hospital. >> megan mccracken, is the problem the shortage or the availability of these drugs? >> it's about the availability of the drugs. there is no shortage of the drugs. rather, the pharmaceutical companies have made the decision that they don't want their names and their products used in executions, so they've set up logistic distribution so that departments of corrections cannot get their drugs for the purpose of execution, but the drugs remain fully available, widely available for clinical use in hospitals and clinics so that patients who need them can still get them. >> which drugs are we talking about? walk us through them. >> primarily we're talking about pentabarbital. the brand name is nembutal. the pharmaceutical company decided they didn't want the product used in executions so they restricted distribution so it's not available to departments of corrections for that purpose. >> dr. zivo

bloomberg's managing editor of deals jeff mccracken joins us.hat you know. >> we just learned literally in the last hour. ge is close to a deal for alstom. it could be announced us and is -- as soon as next week. the price tag is a rick nash is around the range of $15 billion -- the price tag is around the range of $13 billion. i think alstom has been approached by ge in the past and have generally been told, no thanks. they are not as strong as they were in the past. >> did they say, no, thanks, or no, merci? >> i was not in the middle of the room. >> i ask because this is a french company. a lot of assets not only in europe but around the world. >> thankfully for ge, they are seen as a good corporate citizen in europe and in paris. it is going to matter how the government perceives this deal. i think ge will be fine getting this through the regulatory process. or are some nuclear power plants that could be problematic. the other thing going for ge, it has a lot of cash sitting offshore. now it has the opportunity to use some of that. >> when y

our reporters harry mccracken of "time" and sarah burr of "usa." i hate to start the show with a line of credit. a half billion in credit. what does a small company need that for? >> let's step back for a minute. these companies aren't small companies. box is doing over $200 million in revenue, growing over 100% a year. we don't know about drop box yet. historically drop box grew faster and was bigger than box. i wouldn't be surprised if we're doing three or $400 million. these little companies from a few years ago have all grown up. what's interesting is they're consuming or saving epic amounts of crash. what does drop box need with $500 million in debt right after they raised $400 million in equity? first of all, this is interesting, all fear has gone out of the market. and so a couple years ago you might actually have to go public before you raised a little debt. a few years ago you'd struggle to go public, people would be worried and maybe you'd sell a little more stock and if you were rubbingly, you would raise debt because debt is cheaper tha

jeff mccracken joins now for more.ceutical companies, they see themselves as a science company at its core. they see valiant as the pirates to come in with companies that have existing drugs and partner with bill acton unsolicited. valiant has been clear that that is what they will do. they have contacted serious suitors to see if they have any interest in coming in and playing white knight and rescuing allergan. >> i think it is early, it would be hard to say. j&j is an interesting option here. they need to make a serious run at this. i know that from the flat -- valiant side, it would be worried about j&j. a very big company supporting the marketplace if they went into it. stake inave a 10% allergan as well. what is the conversation between the activist investor right now? >> there is no conversation, they are just basically not responding when they don't reach out. i know there was a recent conversation through back channels, if you will, where they were trying to get them to sit down. so far there has been no dialo

central and western ukraine generally because of its apparent inability to deal with this crisis mccracken reporting from jeanette score on the diplomatic front the un security council held an emergency meeting sunday over ukraine that was called by brush and that nothing much came out that the russian foreign minister said a laptop is just a beginning a press conference ninety four metre robert parsons was listening in to that he kindly now on a set route one cannot know what was to not have to say now just moments ago with nothing new but said it was too low to try to create the impression the brochure is the change of policy he added that the piece ukrainian so called self defense units have taken control of several cities in eastern ukraine. i'm not submitted that the victims he called on kids. again not to use force but he said that snowball russian attempts to intervene to prevent a cute using force income subsidy nothing to say he was curious to why. the us was sending c i a chief sean brennan to ukraine this week what the significance of that might be suggesting one implying that m

jeff mccracken of bloomberg news, thank you. perfect timing.e in tomorrow on "bloomberg west," where i will be speaking with t-mobile ceo john legere himself. still ahead, the twitter ceo dick costolo. can twitter really become mainstream? it alreadyo thinks is. he will tell us why, next. ♪ >> you're watching "bloomberg west," where we focus on technology and the future of business. i'm emily chang. rightr's future is according to twitter, but their stock is plunging. membership in the first quarter hit 255 million active users, -- but thatwed growth slowed. stock at its lowest level since it began trading last november, despite strong revenue growth. earlier today i spoke with twitter ceo dick costolo. a lot of people are questioning whether twitter can never be mainstream. he believes it already is mainstream. i asked him why. >> i think a lot of people think of twitter as the product or just the website, but the reality is twitter risen front of people around the world every all over tv.antly i was watching the adam silver announcement yeste

jeffrey mccracken, the adult in the room, managing editor of mergers and acquisitions and public offeringsews worldwide and we are honored he could take 10 minutes out of his busy schedule this morning. have you ever seen at this silly? >> no, the animal spirits are really back. a lot of this is pent-up demand. we have always had tons of cash sitting in balance sheets offshore or in the united states. he have had investor support for deals. guy doing thehe deal, the one spending the billions, you have got that combination and it seems like the c suite, they are not as nervous as they were. they were always eyeing deals, they now seem more willing to go ahead. >> my sense of the value this weekend is that if you do not do your math, you will not get lemon sure. you talk about contingent value rights. what is that? basically a payment based upon future performance targets. if you hit certain elements of the fda approval process, you usually see it in drug deals, pharmaceutical deals. here are a bunch of money will not get paid to shareholders unless or until. >> you take that over to all the

there's a wonderful woman in the book, gailey mccracken.she thought to herself i always wanted to be a doctor, i washi had done that. she said well, if i did it now, i'd be 50 by the time i became a docto doctor. she said, well, you're going to be 50 anyway. so she's a doctor. >> it's interesting if it's a woman who had been in the workforce and changed gears. for a woman who has not and raised her family, how do you change that and get into the workforce? >> exactly. a lot of women say what am i going to do with my life? one woman figured out she always was losing her keys. so she created this little thing called a cell folio, where she could put her cell phone and credit cards and keys and leave the house. but she and her friends got together. women in this book mortgaged their house, sold their clothes on ebay, they got a job as an intern, they took a lon on their retirement fund. i'm not saying do all these things. it's in the doing, it's not in the head. you all know at that. >> is the one thread that you found most interesting for the