pfizer is committed to being transparent about corporate political contributions. we fully comply with all federal, state and local laws and reporting requirements on political contributions and have corporate policy that requires we compile and publish political contributions in a report we provide the board of directors and post externally on our web site every six months. we request from trade associations that receive $100,000 or more in a given year a portion of our dues used for political activity so we can disclose that amount on our web site as well. we have been providing disclosure reports that our annual meeting since 1997 and began posting on our web site in 2005. cheryl words -- shareholders have any views. we realize we can't improve every one of majority are satisfied with our level of disclosure. we were also pleased to learn recently that corporate political disclosure released on september 15th recognizes fighter's contribution that's one of the most transparent among the s&p companies. six other companies got the highest marks for disclosure on p

pfizer and six other companies that its highest marks. pfizer is committed to a dancing public policies that ensure patients have access to the medicines they need. by engaging with our shareholders, implementing clear policies and procedures for around political contributions, and providing intimation to predict providing information to the public, we have addressed many of the concerns raised since the citizens united gift to. we will continue to have the right processes in place to minimize shareholder risk. thank you. >> let me start by congratulating ced for again taking on the campaign finance issue. as many of you know, ced played a pivotal role in the last major campaign finance dialogue in congress to end the soft money system. ced brings critical business leadership to very tough battles. on behalf of many of behalfwho work for reform -- on behalf of many of us who work for reform, we greatly appreciate ced. this country has long recognized the importance of transparency. if you go back to 1974, the supreme court put it simply w

in addition to that, pfizer center moved in. they are occupying 11,000 square feet, but they have committed for the next five years to work with ucsf, the wonderful relationship we are establishing with them. they are committing up to $100 million in joint projects. that is pfizer. bayer health-care similarly. they are collaborating with ucsf and started opening 50,000 square feet. tiyoga energy announced their headquarters move from silicon valley to our financial district. then, you may have heard a few months ago, we opened a target at the new metric on. in may, i broke ground -- actually, i took a sledgehammer and hunched a hole into a wall because that is going to be a project that creates 1300 jobs in our city, generating $4.4 million annually to our local economy while bringing in not just target but 20 new businesses in that center. of course, you may have heard that we open up the second fresh and easy store in bayview. that started and open up just at the end of last month, and it is their second store. first one was i

today, we have more than 35 life science companies in mission bay, including pfizer, the pfizer center for therapeutic innovation, there -- bayer health care, but it is not just limited to biotech. salesforce purchased in mission bay, one of the last parcels in the cloud computing. the competing firms that will propose to build some 2 million square feet of their headquarters in campus right there employing 8000 employees. now, on to even more exciting news. in addition to winning baseball games, the giants are working with the port on the lot that sits across from coleco from the giants stadium. currently a parking lot. but the site will be transformed into a mixed use neighborhood that includes a pedestrian, not -- pedestrian promenade. hundred 75 rental homes, exhibit space, new retail and up to 1.7 million square feet of office and by a tax base. this side said slightly south of the mission bay appeared filled with historic buildings that tell of san francisco was a industry, maritime pact, including bethlehem steel and the union iron works machine shop. the port will restore 700,0

for instance, pfizer created caduet, a quinn combination of lipitor and norvasc while bristol-myers squibb introduced reeses peanut butter plavix. you got your blood thinner my chocolate! (laughter and applause) wow, that sounds good. i could go for some of that. well, this year many of prescott's most popular drug patents will expire along with many of the patients who took them. (laughter) so to protect their intellectual property, prescott is proud to combine its greatest prescription hits into one patent-extending drug. introducing vax josh beckettaxamalgam. whether you're suffering from angina, eczema, dry mouth, damp mouth, constipation, diarrhea, night terrors, day terrors, brunch terrors, sore throat, deep throat, lock jaw, slack jaw, jabber jaw, gnaws your asses, heart arrhythmia, erectile dysfunction, blood in urine... (laughter). blood in urine, gleurn blood, shingles, cedar shake, down spouts, aluminum siding or whatever this yellow one does right there, vaxamalgam will cure it or cause it. warning, don't take it with dairy products, which should not be a problem since it is a

pfizer and johnson & johnson gained about 1%. j&j initially was down on news. this morning, the f.d.a. staff recommended not okaying a blood thinning drug for certain patients. an advisory panel is due to vote later this week. big news in the international currency markets. the swiss national bank intervened, hoping to limit its currency rally. it capped the exchange rate between the franc and the euro hoping to bring down the franc. the move initially helps the euro which has been dropping in value thanks to european government debt problems. the swiss franc has been a safe haven. this chart shows the euro versus the swiss franc. as the euro has dropped, that has lifted the franc, until today, when switzerland said it won't allow its currency go below 1.20 euro. ira epstein at the linn group says today's swiss action helps the dollar, at least for a couple of days. >> tom: the dollar gets a bid because we're worried about the near term, and then we'll switch gears after the president's speech wondering what's up with our own fed, and the dollar's rally could b

colonel gadhafi supporters with time running out the noise to lay down all the bottles thousands of pfizer's and broken it seems likely concerns grow that libya is turning into a troll neighborhood. israelis to stage their biggest ever government produce. when living standards maybe three hundred thousand nationwide to get the government to spend more on social programs instead of settlements under the tree. ukraine's to. previously agreed price is all cause for refusing to make any concession to the current contract compliance with international climate. stay with us on the way next with a. thank you ellis welcome to. the headlines this hour. to make a victory in the. final event championships. in the u.s. open to. the fourth round. and . the rugby world cup all the time. fly to new zealand. and let's begin with. russia claimed two goals on the closing day of the world championships in south korea in the surprising the odds by beating champion caster semenya in the women's eight hundred meters the russian clock one minute fifty five point eighty seven seconds semana had to settle for a seco

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the trillions and billions of dollars on the sidelines, they have money -- pfizer and general electricave trillions of dollars overseas. let's start a program to get america going again. the problem in many america is not that we don't have enough money. we have more money than any other country in the world. the problem is american business is not spending it and not getting in the game. that's how we will get america going again. >> i'm hearing tweets across the universe here because i want to go back. are you questioning the patriotism of apple for sitting on money? >> yes, i am. >> are you? >> yes, i am. what is it with a company that sell most of their products here in the united states. they are the biggest, apple stores everywhere, sitting on that kind of money and every time they do something they do it in china, somewhere else. there is something wrong. >> what about the high price of labor and health care and the high coast of environmental drove them out of the country. >> i don't believe that at all. we have companies here that make a lot of money like u.p.s. we have a numb

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pfizer, general motors, caterpillar. bringing that back here and put americans back it work. that should be the message that we do. >> all right. teamsters union president. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> i don't believe what the white house or john boehner said in the scheduling kerfuffle what it says about la we can expect going forward. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. >>> yesterday's scheduling flap between the white house and the house was a stark reminder of the dysfunction in washington. and if they'd fight about that, it doesn't bode well for the next 15 months. i get that this coming weekend, labor day weekend, marks the unofficial end of summer and that tuesday is back to work and school for many adults and children. i also understand that congress comes back to work on wednesday evening, and that therefore ç superficially the white house can argue that wednesday was the natural date, the first date, in which the president could reasonably expect to go to the capitol and speak to congress abou

we know the biggest corporations don't pay taxes at all or so little tax, like general electric, pfizer, caterpillar. they don't pay taxes and they say the taxes are too high. how can they be too high if they're not paying taxes? to me it's elementary that we have to have a big change in the way we collect taxes in this country. we cannot let anybody escape. we can't let people come in like general electric and make billions of dollars and they got a rebate back. can you believe that? they got a $320 million rebate after they didn't pay any taxes and we realize that's not right. basically the idea of someone paying 15%, these billionaires and millionaires paying 15% while working people are paying 30%, that is wrong and that's going to be the issue and finally, the president is speaking out and i applaud him for what he's doing. >> mr. hoffa, good to have you with us tonight. thanks for your time. i appreciate it. >> remember the question is at the bottom of the screen. we want to know what you think. >> it looks like president obama is finally prepared to take this to the republicans.

they've got it in their coffersç pfizer, general motors, caterpillar.k here and put americans back it work. that should be the message that we do. >> all right. team stars un teamsters union president. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> i don't believe what the white house or john boehner said in the scheduling kerfuffle wlaen it says about la we can expect going forward. you're watching "hardball" only on mooes mooes. [ oswald ] there's a lot of discussion going on about the development of natural gas, whether it can be done safely and responsibly. at exxonmobil we know the answer is yes. when we design any well, the groundwater's protected by multiple layers of steel and cement. most wells are over a mile and a half deep so there's a tremendous amount of protective rock between the fracking operation and the groundwater. natural gas is critical to our future. at exxonmobil we recognize the challenges and how important it is to do this right. the crib is already there. great. thank you so much. [ male announcer ] we provide great service, so you c

there might be a mechanism for of pfizer's to pay for them to be able to examine. they be given the authority to do at least examination of the broker-dealers. unless there is sufficient funds, we have to look closely at about an sr0. we have to find a way to have better oversight. this is one of the vehicles to do that. >> despite your efforts, i was concerned that the department of labor king complected any one may propose. i know there was some talk about getting together and working together. i was surprised that they came out. it was the head of what you decide it. i do not know there is any real coordination. he tried to get together. >> we reached up to the department of labour. we participated in some of their round tables. they have responsibility for the its ministration. the sec is just not have that responsibility. it is not with regard to the standards. >> thank you. >> i yield back. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> in the bcg report, your estimate it range from 200 million to $300 million and gave a sharp fall needed to but still the current mess in --

i think pfizer with hank and fred, mark, and now your current ceo has been a long friend, a longtime friend, equally committed to ethics. research on the board of the ethics forum center a number of years ago. and, finally, mike morris, the ceo of american electric power is going to be co-leading our work on energy policy a long with fred smith from fedex. so thanks to each of you for what you're doing, your leadership. second point, this issue came up a couple times in conversation. i think tony raised a. if members of congress feel that they have now to raise more money to protect themselves from outside groups, at the same time they say they don't like a system, why don't they fix it? they can do it. they can do it immediately. third point, ced is back in again. as fred mentioned. and we're going to look forward to continuing and deepening the relationship we have with each other partners that we've had for many, many years. and forth, what are we going to do about it? first we're going to continue the campaign around the company, excuse me, around the country. we want more compan

according to travel, company, driven pfizer. flying? las vegas. san diego are also on the top three. >> let us check our weather. if we need to to get out of town of? fluff and look at this fog of. fluf [laughter] let us checd with janu. >> hello purif. --him of the noy is expecting a nice day if. with 80s by noon. the five degrees from flip 65 this evening. temperatures are slow to warm up. 62 degrees in mountain view. fairfield of live looking at temperatures that are tolerable. with 80s in the sunnyvale. 86 degrees in milpitas. inland a bit warmer with a evening nice on tap. in a really nice pleasant day for the east bayshore. mid-70s. '70s in the san leandro, 80s and castro valley. and along the peninsula it will also be nice. redwood city and downtown san francisco will see mild temperatures. 89 degrees in sonoma, 86 degrees in napa. still 90 degrees expected for fairfield. the seven day around the bay is showing that there is a slight will front. a rebound with a warm up by tuesday. >> back to you, isabel. >> 10 years. ginnie mosjeanne ma lo

there might be a mechanism for of pfizer's to pay for them to be able to examine. they be given the authority to do at least examination of the broker-dealers. unless there is sufficient funds, we have to look closely at about an sr0. we have to find a way to have better oversight. this is one of the vehicles to do that. >> despite your efforts, i was concerned that the department of labor king complected any one may propose. i know there was some talk about getting together and working together. i was surprised that they came out. it was the head of what you decide it. i do not know there is any real coordination. he tried to get together. >> we reached up to the department of labour. we participated in some of their round tables. they have responsibility for the its ministration. the sec is just not have that responsibility. it is not with regard to the standards. >> thank you. >> i yield back. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> in the bcg report, your estimate it range from 200 million to $300 million and gave a sharp fall needed to but still the current mess in --

american troops already serving as aid workers and local political let pfizer's found themselves teachers in the campaign against afghan illiteracy as well as fighters against an elusive taliban enemy. americans were helped by an improved intelligence system that had evolved through one designed to understand the other tank armies to one that worked hard to understand local tribal power structures and political relationships and by the new weapon of war that put taliban leaders at risk wherever they were armed drones. these unmanned aircraft provided phenomenal loader times and intelligence on enemy operations and precise fire power that did damage to taliban chains of command. the drones were part of the intelligence apparatus locating osama bin laden in pakistan in 2011. it was, however, special forces operators who used the intelligence they and other sources provided to kill him marking a critical date in the now decade-long war against al qaeda. as an impressive as all of these accomplishments are, the learning army and marine corps, and air force that increasingly relies upon the un

pfizer, dupont, u.s. steel, proctor and gamble -- back when they were founded, there were founded by immigrants. those are a lot of jobs coming from immigration. to start off with alejandra, i will start with to the cliche -- we are a country of immigrants. we encourage immigrants to come to the world's best graduate schools. other countries are trying to catch up, but it turns out that it is hard to create a network of post -- schools and we started out way ahead. we have a history of risk taking. we have a history of capital for would be. we have a culture that kaulitz failure more than anywhere else in the world. it made the u.s. -- culture that accepts failure more than anywhere else in the world. it made the u.s. the best in the world. our cultural history has given us an edge, even with the global the economic troubles. i think we're still the entrepreneurialism a cup of the world. we have to make sure -- the entrepreneurial mecca of the world. we have to make sure that they have that opportunity, w

. > >> answer to the trivia question brought to you by pfizer. rob ortiz is the winner. the 1920's as a republican held congressional seat in the new york's ninth district but tuesday, that changed. new york businessman, one time underdog, bob turner pulled off the unthinkable defeating the state assemblyman david weprin in a special election. now new york congressman-elect bob turner joins us live. congratulations. you were on with us almost from the day after that weiner stepped aside. did you have doubts when you were on our couch, congressman elect that you could actually be here today talking about a victory? >> well, i never went in with assurances but i started this pretty confident that this was going to happen. >> i heard senator schumer say this is not much of a surprise. because that's a very conservative district. everyone knows that in new york city. what's your answer to that? >> could have fooled me but they certainly were conservative enough on election day. but this seat has been democratic since the 1920's. so this was quite an upset. and the voters spo

pfizer, dupont, u.s. steel, proctor and gamble -- back when they were founded, there were founded by immigrants. those are a lot of jobs coming from immigration. to start off with alejandra, i will start with to the cliche -- we are a country of immigrants. we encourage immigrants to come to the world's best graduate schools. other countries are trying to catch up, but it turns out that it is hard to create a network of post -- schools and we started out way ahead. we have a history of risk taking. we have a history of capital for would be. we have a culture that kaulitz failure more than anywhere else in the world. it made the u.s. -- culture that accepts failure more than anywhere else in the world. it made the u.s. the best in the world. our cultural history has given us an edge, even with the global the economic troubles. i think we're still the entrepreneurialism a cup of the world. we have to make sure -- the entrepreneurial mecca of the world. we have to make sure that they have that opportunity, w

pfizer, dupont, u.s. steel, proctor and gamble -- back when they were founded, there were founded by immigrants. those are a lot of jobs coming from immigration. to start off with alejandra, i will start with to the cliche -- we are a country of immigrants. we encourage immigrants to come to the world's best graduate schools. other countries are trying to catch up, but it turns out that it is hard to create a network of post -- schools and we started out way ahead. we have a history of risk taking. we have a history of capital for would be. we have a culture that kaulitz failure more than anywhere else in the world. it made the u.s. -- culture that accepts failure more than anywhere else in the world. it made the u.s. the best in the world. our cultural history has given us an edge, even with the global the economic troubles. i think we're still the entrepreneurialism a cup of the world. we have to make sure -- the entrepreneurial mecca of the world. we have to make sure that they have that opportunity, w