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. ♪ ♪ ♪ brian: where do they get that octa from? brian: that's why people like ed. ed sheeran.insley: crashing the wedding. steve: the key is who's performing next door to the church. make sure if you're going to be there at 8:00 at night, the show doesn't start until 9:00. ainsley: there's a church next to the youtube concert that's taking place. brian: you're going; right? ainsley: i'm going to go. i'll invite whole crowd over to the concert. steve: it's at the meadowlands? ainsley: i don't know. we'll worry about that tomorrow. i may or may not show up here on friday because i have a concert. just kidding. i'll be here. brian: meanwhile, senate republicans are voting to repeal obamacare. ainsley: urging leaders to get a deal done for the sake of the american people. steve: joins you right now in washington, d.c. griff, what went wrong? >> hey, guys, well, a lot went wrong because they helped to pass the obamacare overhaul bill before the july recess. now republican senators are headed home where they're going to get an earful of why can't you just get it done? senate majorit

so the infrastructure companies recent ipos, octa, we're big investors in meal soft which went publicding infrastructure underneath all of these companies. >> ann you've been a long-term investor as you pointed out in stocks like the amazon, like the microsoft, like the apple. what would it take for you to lose interest in one of these companies? what would make you think, okay, this is not the place i want to be right now. >> i think in the near term it's going to be hard to lose interest in these companies. they have so many vectors coming at them that are positive from demographics to technology streams to where they planted their early flags. we look at cloud. that's really early. and you've got amazon in the lead there. microsoft is second place. google fourth place. ibm. you know -- >> where are you on ibm? >> i think ibm, and companies like ibm and oracle are doing the right things but they've got a lot of work to do. it's great that ibm has decided that data is the future, that intelligence and machine intelligence is the future. i think companies like accent your and ibm's sy