the p a complaint partly that's the explanation given by pfizer. the patent protection on heidi body pfizer products has expired on the company knowing competes with much cheaper generic equivalents that is most call it costs accordingly. for one hundred and fifty unfortunate worker senior grades. that means they will no longer have a job. it is a very difficult than us but for feist internet for new version pictured him unfit to preserve jobs in the river cousin. i think a mausoleum we have had the house was passed in the frozen air and we have significant positions and for married to mike for taking fifteen changes in requirements. but the reality is you have to modify and change her newest work to effect these changes don't you want out. the future such explanations will be cold comfort to workers however the new breed since nineteen ninety two. pfizer plays a significant role in the local economy and community. it's not a great time this is a very family orientated it at business here in pfizer their thumb is to be here for many years and it's

pfizer makes the blockbuster impotence drug.et's head over to elliott gotkine in tel aviv. >> it is not a total victory. given how despond and some investors are with this company, they may see it as a bit of a defeat. it all dates back to 2010. that is when part of pfizer's viagra patent was ruled to be invalid because it resembles a chinese medicine known as horny goat weed. has beenn, teva fighting to get the rest of pfizer's patent invalidated. the court dismissed requests by teva. as part of a settlement between these pharmaceutical companies, teva will be able to market generic copies of viagra in the united states. it will have to pay patent royalties divisor until the overall patent expires in 2020. also worth noting that generic viagra is already available in most of the european union, where the patent expired in june. rex a rare bit of good news for teva. it really failed to prop up the shares. >> they spiked about one percent higher in the u.s. yesterday and .3% in israel, where they have begun trading today. so shar

why it is better to have zoetis separate from pfizer? unlock significant value. >> unlock value. okay. >> now we have the opportunity to create the value to the shareholders of zoetis. >> but what does it mean? what are you able to get now as a separate company that you couldn't get when you were within pfizer? >> well, i would say the single focus on animal health. at pfizer they have different units, different opportunities for investment. now all the people that are working for zoetis are focused on creating a value and translate this value to the shareholders. >> i think this is a great story. no third party payer alone in a world where that's all i think about now from big pharma. this is a terrific story. i want to think juan ramon alaix, the ceo of zoetis. you got to look at this stock. i spent the weekend looking at this thing, and i can't believe i wasn't talking about it all along. it is a great story. "mad money" will be right back. >>> you bet today got ugly. we had a 3m drop of six points from a hold and sell at morgan stanl

this is one that may affect pfizer, pfizer has, what is it, centrum silver.re saying it doesn't help cognitive decline, doesn't help heart disease, doesn't help cancer. $23 billion business. what's your take on this? >> well, the reality is that vitamins have to be demonstrated to be safe in order to get on the market. they don't have to prove to be effective at really doing anything. obviously there are a lot of things that we get in our diet that are essential to our wellbeing, and some people have poor diets and may be supplem t supplementing their diets with nutritional supplements is healthy. we have two big studies looking at cognitive function -- actually, three. cardiovascular disease and cancer. the data suggests there really isn't much benefit. >> this is a blow to that business. got to be a blow to that business. >> well, i think that there are lots of people out there that are going to buy things because they think it's going to improve their health care. you know, we don't have the right studies to defeinitively say there is no benefit. obviously

pfizer is now staying, with 700 jobs as well.een a success and it shows that if you work together with the private sector, you can get good results like this. >> the disability benefits consortium of over 50 charities has signed a letter to the secretary of state for work and pensions calling for immediate action to exempt disabled people from the bedroom tax. why on earth do the prime minister and his government and refuse to listen? him >> obviously, what we have done is to exempt disabled people who need an extra room. this does, i think, come back to a basic issue of fairness, which is this people in private sector rented accommodation who get housing benefit do not get a subsidy for spare rooms, whereas people in council houses do get a subsidy for spare rooms. a that is why it was right to end it, and it is right to end it thinking of the 1.8 million people in our country on housing waiting lists. >> i wonder whether the prime minister has had a chance to watch any of the fantastic rugby league world cup semi-final match th

israel-based -- teva fighting with pfizer. let's talk with elliott gotkine.al victory for teva, is it? >> some might even see this as a defeat for teva. it all goes back to 2005 when parts of the patent for viagra were invalidated because they were deemed to be too similar to the chinese herbal medicine known as horny goat weed. since then, teva has been fighting to get the rest of viagras patent for invalidated. as part of a broader agreement december 2017,om they will be able to market generic copies of viagra while paying patent royalties to pfizer. in 2020, they will no longer need to pay those royalties. it's worth noting that generic viagra is already available in much of the european union. teva started selling generic copies back in june when the patent expired in the eu. it'sod news for teva, but failed to prop up the shares. >> they initially spiked about 1% yesterday. they are also traded in israel where they are the biggest listed israel company. if you look over a five year basis, the investors stake has just been adding away. the main reason, i

the new key benchmark for the about that with jim o'neill and look at pfizer.is losing poet ensy. the deal that -- po tensey. the deal that puts viagra on the market. ♪ >> welcome back. the vote was 9- 0 for the interest rate count and bond purchases. >> further gain in the pound would weaken the recovery so clearly very much onboard with the idea that the depreciation of the pound needs to be maintained and it will be a problem. the november -- the august to october unemployment rate, 7.4%. below estimates. near the threshold level the bank of england set itself at 7%. jobless claims have fallen. more than expected. >> still with us is former goldman sachs asset management chairman jim o'neill. the unemployment rate better than expected but also what they said about pounds. what do they mean for thresholds? >> very strong data. it is becoming a bit of a consensus view. nobody wants to -- these things really. i don't know if it is not easy for them to stop it going up. if the numbers keep being strong unless they do something else. it might well be if the fed b

. >> your final choice is pfizer. they have gone through very tough years. you see them coming out of the woods. how much higher do you think they could be a year from now than today? >> we conservatively see 20% upside. after the lipator sell off and they did a good job selling off the nutritional business, rolling out animal health business and, you know, now they are starting to plan the financials for the innovative branded companies versus the generic, there could be more restructuring to come. >> diane, do you have disclosures with respect to stocks, state, city, ge or pfizer? >> i'm a shareholder in the fund and in all my funds and we own those stocks. >> we like that you put your money where your picks are. diane gaffy, thanks for joining us. have a happy holiday. >> you, too, thank you. >>> and coming up next, a longer odds but bigger jackpots, why the chances of winning tonight's mega millions drawing are worse than ever. >>> it may be friday the 13th, but tons of people are feeling lucky buying tickets for tonight's multimillions lottery. more tha

siemens will make diagnostic tests for pfizer for patients who are most likely to benefit. shares are unchanged at $4.25. >>> archer daniels midland is raising 26% and buying back 18 million of its shares. the company cited strong cash flow and expected earnings improvement in 2014 as reasons for the change. the stock rose a fraction to $40.66. >>> aig is selling its aircraft leasing uniity in an effort to focus on its share holdings. the dutch company will buy the aircraft unit called international released finance corporation for $5.4 million. aig has been trying to shed the unit and today, ceo robert bonn moshe says he's happy with the deal. >> they paid us in cash and in stock. so, therefore, we wound up owning 46%, but what you actually accomplished here was an ipo and a merger all at once and you get the accounting treatment so that we can write it once to market which is very important. >> shares of aig up 1% to $50.28. a $6.8 million deal in the semiconductor industry. the chipmaker avago technologies will buy lsi corporation and the deal helps avago get into the st

right pfizer being the statute that enables all this and he didn't get it right and then doubt a claim that he needs a review group to decide what to do about juries we have just a little list of for a lot of us here is your thoughts on c.b.s. is there for just to be like an infomercial. a scale. having demonstration of so much of what is wrong with corporate media in the united states and also an example why i'm happy to have programs like. this you have no independence at all the idea that media would be reduced to becoming propaganda in favor of the state when so much of journalism is ethics is rooted in this notion of speaking truth to power and shining a light where all that's in there and that's the essence of the first amendment is that without a free and independent press you can't have a functioning democracy absolutely ever since she had great to see you great to see it up thanks so much for dropping the question. coming up it's been now more than two years since new york police broke up the occupy wall street encampment and zuccotti park what impact did occupy wall street ha

pfizer is one example. pfizer's net income down in the third quarter. earnings per share went up thanks to 11.7% benefit from a buyback. it's sitting on a ton of cash. shares are up 20% year to date. now, contraction in merck, 6.9% in the third quarter but a 3.2% drop in earnings groetd. again, thanks to the buyback. now, over to home depot. home depot has consistently increased the amount it's bought back from 2009 to 2012. the latest quarter of home depot's net quarter drew but it crew 28%. shares are up 30% year to date. these buybacks may be good for shareholders in the short one but some analysts argue that companies who focus on buybacks to raise the stock price may be out of good ideas on how to invest their money to grow their businesses. andrew? >> thank you, seema. let's get over to sheila. try and find out which stocks are ripe for insider selling. >> we've been talking a lot about facebook and how mark zuckerberg has been cashing in on his shares. he is not alone. in fact, plenty of companies have been seeing insider selling. we screened the

he was the president's post at pfizer. a very sick man, he was a social worker but preferred the company of a rich and the wellborn. hung out at a harem, he and his wife lived in the white house. didn't like it particular lead. they moved out and took a house in georgetown in 1943 but harry went -- after the president died in april of 1942, carry on his last mission with president truman, after that, got the best present of his life after that. he lived in new york and died at the age of 55 living in new york. >> what made you choose him? >> the most telling adviser there ever was. full contact, terribly funny, sarcastic. i ran into him writing an earlier book and he used his elbows in a bureaucratic fashion to elbow a particular guy out of the way. he was sinister. he was a very good insider. roosevelt loved him. he had total access, a unique kind of situation. >> what was his most -- if you can classify what was his most significant contribution to the war effort? >> his relationship with winston churchill. churchill did

. >> we are joined by pfizer patel, the codirector of the liberty security program at the brennan center and jim walsh, a security expert at nyt, and a jazeera. from watertown massachusetts. great to have other judges have sided with the n.s.a. in the past. how likely is the ruling or rule going forward, or is this just an outlier. >> i think the whole fourth amendment jurize prudence around collecting metadata is in flux. we have a court ruling from the secret fiva court which approved the surveillance and they found this to be constitutional. they relied on a 1970s case from the supreme court called smith versus mary land finding a single pen register found phone numbers called from a single telephone was constitutional. what the judge found was the ruling doesn't apply when you are looking at a program that runs over years, and years and years and is not picking up one person's information. it's picking up millions, hundreds of millions. >> despite being authorised by the pfizer court. >> the ruling was not in front of the court, but it was able to do an independent constitutional ana

eog is one of the great oil and gas plays and tractor supply and pfizer, steady as she goes.rug, entertainment, aerospace, oil and gas. hallelujah. all right. bob in florida. >> caller: hello. >> bob. you're on. >> caller: hi, jim, booyah from the villages of florida. >> excellent, what's going on? >> caller: i got five stocks for you. >> okay. >> caller: first one is p.m., phillip morris. second one is mcdonald's, mcd. >> okay. >> caller: boeing. b.a. johnson & johnson and cemex. >> let me start with the last one first, speculative mexican play. i have to tell you, mexico, i have been trying to find ways to play mexico and i don't like the eww. that's an interesting way to do. aerospace, boeing, j&j, it's a large part of my charitable trust. mcdonald's, no on phillip morris. i didn't like that quarter. replace it with a diversified industrial company like g.e. you have a restaurant chain, tobacco, i don't like that one. aerospace. drug and cement. good choices, but the pmi, a lot of people got hurt by that because it's a new negative view for me. i have liked it for ages. i

. >> after a 7.5% pull back, it is pfizer on -- >> i'd rather be in -- pfizer is too slow for me.ohn in illinois, john. >> caller: hey, jim, nice to talk to you. thank you for all the help you give to everybody. i'd like know where you see baxter. >> great illinois company. two companies under one reach. it goes to 85 almost instantly. own it for the split. i go to kurt in new york, kurt. >> caller: jim. >> yo, kurt. >> caller: midwestern new york b-b-b-boo-yah. my stock is pay, p-a-y. i carry that stock over a period of time, and it's gotten trounced a couple of times this year. it's up around the 25 mark. >> well, last quarter was good. now you won't have to wait too long because they report next week. i have to tell you, i have been waiting for them to put together two straight quarters in a row that are good, and they have not done that yet. i'm crossing my fingers for you sir. can i go to alex in louisiana. alex. >> caller: hey, jim. a big weekend boo-yah from baton rouge, louisiana. >> lsu go, man. >> caller: i have a quick question for you. you've been talking a lot about i

and then, requiring a court order, by the pfizer court.e nsa wants to get in and do the second step of the process which is analysis of the data. we are not talking about the end of data, meta data as an important tool for the nsa. law enforcement all over the country, state and federal level uses it routinely. we are talking limits to protect, the u.s. average citizens under the constitution. >> peter, is it your sense, now with your experience having talked to people at the nsa and putting this together, that they would appreciate clarified guidelines about exactly what they should be doing and how they should be doing it? it seems the way they're working now has to a certain extent evolved without so many formal procedural decisions having been made over the course two of presidencies. >> there has been an evolution over time. many programs came in after 9/11. the wiretaps people have criticize the. over three, four years there has been more compliance structure. the court chastised them and put in a series to respond to it. i think the

a federal lawsuit, pfizer, the company that developed viagra, is allowing an israel drugmaker to sell its version in four years. other companies will have to wait, though. viagra sales, get this, total more than $2 billion last year. sales definitely not limp. >>> wendy's first restaurant with new features is open right across the street from corporate headquarters. it looks forward with its digital menu boards, a wi-fi bar and flat-screen tvs to boot. and it looks back at the burger chain's 44-year history. and its founder, the iconic dave thomas. >>> while we're waiting to hear who is going to share last night's megamillions jackpot, much more than that goes unclaimed every, single year. >> how people don't get their money, i'll never understand. officials say, get this, about 800 million bucks in winnings are not collected. not collected, every year. often it's because players hear they didn't win the jackpot and they don't realize they won lesser prizes, though. some of the lesser prizes can be worth up to $1 million. not a bad deal. >> not bad at all. you're not a millionaire. bu

nation's largest non-profit health care provider kizer and for the second year in a row, third place, pfizer with a lot of employees siting positive relationships with senior management and opportunities to move up the ladder and i thought it was just the free prozac. kidding, kidding. >> interesting health care companies. >> and no disney there. how about that? they call it the happiest place on earth. >> that's "nightly business report" for tonight. we're pretty happy over here, tyler and i. >> indeed. thanks for watching, everybody, i'm tyler mathisen. stay warm. we'll see you tomorrow. >>> "nightly business report" has been brought to you in part by. >> thestreet.com, up to the minute stock market news and in depth analysis, our quant rating service provides objective enden we dent ratings daily on over 4300 stocks. learn more at the street.com/nbr. >>> this is going to be controversial no matter what the title was. maybe this guy invented the computer. >>> people who tour these galleries often say wow, i had no idea. many think computing is about engineers and mathematicians. but if you

pfizer changing, or infishing unchanged. after the bell, we had boeing saying it's going to be raising its dividend by 50% and it's also going to be buying back $10 billion worth of stock. should be active in tomorrow's session and give a lift to the dow. lastly, larry, we're keeping an eye on the ten year. it's at 2.88%. the markets behaving well, even as it climbed a little bit. of course, the 2.991-92 level tends to cause the market little bit of trouble. we'll be watching that tomorrow. back to you. >> mary thompson, thank you. a great optimistic, very bullish report. >>> now we go from mary thompson on wall street to washington. a federal judge ruled today that nsa phone spying is, quote, almost certainly unconstitutional. so what happens now? cnbc's eamon javers joins us live from washington. good evening, eamon, what can you tell us about this big decision? >> good evening, larry. it was a big decision and big defeat for the nsa in a federal courtroom in washington today. as you say, that federal judge saying the nsa'

am, pfizer, exxon, getting reduced. that can lead to volatility. some are adding additions to the s&p and we will see those as well. facebook is going in. gm is adding some to itself. pioneer, and mohawk. guys, back to you. >> bob pisani, thank you very much for that. let's find out what is happening in the bond pitts. let's get straight to rk at tic santelli at the cme. quiet week for the bond market? >> it's been quiet all right. it's quiet if you're in the echo chamber of interest rate volatility! no, it's been crazy. and it's still crazy. but in a slightly different form. look at the intraday of fives. up three basis points on the day. up 13 or 14 basis points on the week. granted, there's an astericsk. 30-year is down big in terms of yield which gives rise to 11, 12 basis points of flattening between that said five-year and 30-year. what does that mean in english? that means something is going on after that fed taper and that is all those longs and short end that we're promised the fed will keep rates low? everybody may still be believing that

and i'm gonna vote with the drug cartels and buy merck and pfizer. alan: i don't think there's any phone stocks that i like. at&t is up 1% with the dow up 20% this year. it's ridiculous. it looks like dead money. and if you think about the names in that space, you've got sprint, blackberry. you've got a lot of dogs. i think you'd be better off to put your money elsewhere than i phones. i would be with the cartels. they're making money selling those stolen phones because there is technology that you can get to lock your phone now but phone companies don't do that because they want to sell insurance. angie: topic number 3: those rose colored glassesrose bowl tickets are going for all time highs. all the way up to 50 thousand dollars would you believe. is this a sign of greater wealth in the economy and is it a buy signal? alan: well, my friend scott here is a footballer. so he's an expert. but i think it's a healthy sign that people are paying a lot more for tickets now . people have more discretionary money. things are not great but they are getting b

condemned it they say it might have been carried out by extremist groups but others say the autonomy is pfizer's from homes could have been responsible and that the allegedly took the nonce to protect them from government forces this is what the free syrian army told me over the phone they say they will send someone to check up on the lines and provide video footage to prove they're all right. on r.t. dot com a truck hijack in mexico but it's got nothing to do with drugs or cash this time it's extremely radioactive material that has gone missing and online to learn more about this story and also bear find out how the pope fare with the long dark winter nights in vatican city by spreading a little light of his own. many british households are wondering how they will stay warm this winter after being hit with massive energy price rises just as the cold begins to bite and that is on top of thousands of u.k. families trapped below the poverty line and unable to heat their homes even with the promise of government help is tesla's syria reports. it's that time of year again when temperatures drop and

centrum made by pfizer, not much impact on the stock? >> the stock is slightly to the down side.re. this could start to catch wind of this report that vitamins don't help you. as a matter of fact, some of the reports actually say they could forget beneficial. how about harmful and they certainly don't help fighting cancer and according to the report. they don't help with cognitive memberly in the long-term. don't help heart attacks or chest pains. whether you spend hundreds or thousands on vitamins, the end, according to this one, says forget about it. stuart: i spent on grapefruit and blueberries. >> smart man. stuart: why are you laughing, arthur brooks? >> i'm not laughing at you, i'm laughing with you. stuart: 50% of all holiday shoppers will finish the last minute buying on-line. not a bricks and mortar stores, it's the largest percentage in the 11 years of the survey. shah galani, are there any on-line stocks that you like? >> not in particular. i think they've all had their run and late in the game at the point of the season to buy them. i prefer visa, mastercard, amex. an

you need a good strong case to go to pfizer. -- goio to fisa. talking to john andrew lewis of csis, formerly a foreign service officer. talking about the judge's decision monday saying that the phone record data collection over by the nsa violates party rights. getting your thoughts, our first phone call. ependentcisco, ind caller. caller: my name is sadat. in 2009, my phone was tapped. i was going through a family dispute. they bring this information to court. when i discovered my phone was tapped, they try to remove this evidence from my files. nine --ame time, the they denied me the right to have an attorney or a speedy trial. i was not present in court. you do not want the -- they denied m -- they do not want the jury to know the story. they said bring him back to san francisco county jail. they bring me back to san francisco county jail and injected my food with poison. i filed a federal lawsuit. the state of california claimed immunity under the 11th amendment under the constitution. they say that california, with their sovereignty to the

a c e pfizer's michael steinberg becoming the longest- serving manager to be convicted of insider tradingit is a government figure that might increase pressure on his former colleagues to cooperate in the u.s. investigation. >> thank you very much. important news, the federal to trim itscision monthly bond purchases, this pace will follow to $75 billion a month. this will be divided between here to tell us more, robbert van batenburg who is with newedge.we are joined with with j.p. morgan funds. withth anastasia amoros j.p. morgan funds. is this a good decision today? >> this substantial and self sustained recovery has been achieved. is anotherthat confirmation that we are in the late stage expansion part the business cycle. yes, the stocks continued to perform well throughout that stage. >> robbert van batenburg, do you agree? >> the problem that i have with the monetary policy is that very few people have articulated that there is enormous unattended costs involved. >> that says what? >> two things. why is there such low inflation right now? the reason why there was low inflation is bec

taking it or whether companies like google are being legally compelled to hand it over through a pfizer order you might remember earlier this week tech giants like google and apple banded together to push for reforms the n.s.a. and its surveillance operations which are beginning to erode trusting consumers and could hurt the bottom line of these very same companies also teaming up against them to say some of the world's leading authors five hundred of them from eighty one different countries around the world including five nobel prize winners are joining together to call in the united nations to pass new international protections from spying in their statement the authors say this. fundamental human right has been rendered null in void through abuse of technological developments by states and corporations for mass surveillance purposes a person under surveillance is no longer free a society under surveillance is no longer a democracy and of course what's a week of new n.s.a. revelations without an international relations mess this one coming from c.b.c. news in canada where new snowden

and pfizer you can actually tell who's who around here with lawmakers wearing red badges that say legislative member and corporate representatives wearing blue. badges that's a private sector member now alec has often been referred to as a dating service for lawmakers and businesses together here legislators and corporate representatives are crafting and voting on model legislation that's going to be done behind closed door meetings a little bit later this afternoon as are known as task forces no media is allowed in there's an education task force there's an energy task force a tax policy task force it's basically organized in a similar way that our congress is organized into committees now once legislation is passed out of these task forces is then carried with lawmakers back to their home states where they try to pass it through their respective state legislatures to become actual laws so basically that's how it works and it's this activity that threatens progressives who argue that this organization acts as a shadow government churning out corporate as legislation and forcing elected lawma

documents and pfizer court documents reveal how the n.s.a. broke privacy rules thousands of times every year in congress there was a revolt against the spy agency we're here to answer one question for the people we represent. do we oppose the suspicion this collection of every american's phone records in the summer the house of representatives comes within just a few votes of defunding the n.s.a.'s bulk records collection program despite the defeat n.s.a. reformers are emboldened a flurry of legislation drops to rein in the n.s.a.'s powers the courts get slammed with lawsuits from groups like the a.c.l.u. and the electronic frontier foundation one federal judge calls the program likely unconstitutional but less than two weeks later another federal judge upholds the program the supreme court looms in the white house admits the president orders an independent review panel which later comes out with forty six specific recommendations to reform the n.s.a. if you had asked me six months ago as we were about to launch into this enterprise whether a

me when she ah softball questions he said mike rogers elected me recap these programs have in the pfizer court elected me when they decided to legislate from the bench on things that were far beyond the mandate of what the corps was ever intended to do the system failed comprehensive win in each level of oversight use level of responsibility that should address this abdicated their responsibility. the events of las week a federal court ruling against the disease ball phone records collection program. the white house's review panel suggesting forty six recommendations to change the nsa speak custodians points. his disclosures over the last six months have at times made our elected representatives who were in charge of nsa oversight look pretty silly. for example this argument from october between two members of the house intelligence committee congressman adam schiff and chairman of mike rogers or disagreeing over what the committee knew when we didn't know it. regarding the nsa spying on world leaders as revealed by the edwards noted you should know this dream and we will be had as a coa

and reforms to the top secret pfizer court the electronic frontier foundation which has been fighting the n.s.a. in court released this statement in response to the recommendations quote we're disappointed that the recommendations suggest a path to continue until spying mass surveillance is still heinous even if private companies servers are holding the data instead of government data centers supporters of edward snowden are arguing that these recommended changes compound with monday's court ruling that the n.s.a. bulk phone metadata collection is likely unconstitutional justified edward snowden's decision to spill the n.s.a. secrets will continue to follow this new development. meanwhile the man who brought edward snowden's n.s.a. documents to the world glenn greenwald testified today in front of a european union parliament committee looking into n.s.a. surveillance on e.u. citizens and you had some harsh words for governments working with the n.s.a. . and governments are devoted to the elimination of hard to see what is the u.s. the u.k. means three partners are clearly devoted to d

. >> gsk is moving ahead, and it's likely that pfizer, merck and johnson & johnson will probably follow suit. not yet, we'll have to wait and see. >> so we told you earlier president obama spent a good portion of the day talking to leaders of the country's top technology firms about a talk as at the top of the hour. ali, good to see you. what is at stake here. theorists have talked about. and many feel like they should get the nsa should get their nose out of our business but iry here and we have to look at that carefully. >> so you're also looking at the big players behind the country's real chinese who are restricted of real estate purchase in their own country are coming right here. >> here on the program edward snowden bargains with brazil for possible asylum. the price? information about the united states spy programs. >>> and no matter who wins the mega millions jackpot, government will make a profit. where does that money go? that's next. night with the combatants in their training base. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. the united states is getting some of its personnel out

att and pfizer. you can actually tell who's who around here. with that lawmakers were in red badges that state legislative member and corporate representatives wearing blue badges that said private sector member. now alex has often been referred to as a dating service for lawmakers and business suits together their legislators and corporate representatives are crafted in voting on model legislation that's been done behind closed door meetings little bit later this afternoon. the senators task force's new media is allowed in. there's an education taskforce there's no wind energy task force the tax policy task force is physically organized a similar way that our congress is organized into committees not once legislation is passed out of these task forces to secure it with lawmakers back to their home states for the traffic passing through their respective state legislatures to become actual loss. so basically that's how it works it's this activity that threatens for christians who argue that this organization acts as a shadow government turning a

he took it out of the secret court of the pfizer around and put it in the open light of day. the judge said exactly that. he said this is a program that if you look at it there's no way it passes muster under the fourth amendment. it is a really interesting turn. a question of whether or not he should be viewed as a or an activist was doing something out of a sense of duty. >> it does. withudge is likely to side the constitution. courts are supposed to be open. it may be an interesting thought as well. jeffel o'reilly and barton. thank you very much. still to come, should companies be able to use facial recognition technology to target you with advertisements? it works, and all about facial recognition next. ♪ >> major companies are looking into facial recognition technology. it can be used for targeted ad to security. they'll also be working in regulation, taking part in meetings early next year. this means they can do what ever they want. it is interesting that this is happening at once. they're working with similar technologies. with no standards in place. >> what the comm

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pfizer now merry christmas from corporate america.he question is, since these guys have done it already, who is next? a wholerns out, there's team at bloomberg that tries to figure out which companies will be upping their dividend and then they try to figure out the amount by which they up their dividend. there is a lot that goes into doing this. there are seven key factors from company guidance to regression analysis on what has happened before. this group tracks 7000 companies. the key -- they are accurate 88% of the time. so you want to pay attention when they say something likely to happen. let me show you some of the companies the dividend forecast team expects will increase their dividends over the next several weeks. wisconsin energy, on december 19, currently three point eight percent. the team at bloomberg expects an increase of four .2%. spectra energy, when you get out to january night, ford, look at williams in the middle of january. is according to the bloomberg forecast. going to post these on twitter. but the point is t