. >> r.j.runer of kentucky assumed he could start a moving company without having to get his competitors permission, so he started one. >> put an ad on craigslist, pickup truck, and we were busy all summer long. >> people wanted your services. now in just a couple years, you have 30 employees, six trucks. >> over 30 now, cleancut young guys. that sells. >> this customer is pleased. >> it's been great. they showed up exactly on time. >> but r.j. soon learned that pleasing customers is not enough. he got a threatening letter from state regulators. >> we need a certificate of necessity saying that there is room in the market for us to operate. >> certificate of necessity. meaning? >> the necessity within the moving mark in kentucky for another mover. >> what? a business has to prove it's needed? to get a license? >> you essentially have to get permission from your own competition first. >> tim's law firm took the case for free. >> when starbucks began it would have had to have gotten permission fr

. >> r.j.: okay, does this really need to happen?> steffy: we can't let people steal from us with no consequence. >> lt. baker: please turn around. >> thomas: wait! i need a minute alone with sally. >> steffy: thomas... >> thomas: stef. please, just give me a minute.

r.j. is consumer equity strategist joining us to discuss. the stock today about $955 a share. should i buy it here, expecting more profit? and if so, how much? >> yeah, i think it's still a buy here as jeff likes to say, still day one of a lot of things they're working on. i don't think anybody's come up with a better business model than amazon prime, becoming the marketplace of choice for a lot of sellers. and a lot of untapped potential for web services as well as some of the voice recognition, image recognition technology they have out there. i think this company still has a lot of growth ahead of it in the next five years. steady profits, a lot of it backed by amazon web services. lots of other parts of the business as well. >> what parts of the business do you find most attractive? prime? the cloud? where do you think amazon is skauting the most effectively? >> i think you hit a lot of those. i think amazon prime will go down as one of the most customer facing developments in the last deca retention rates extremely high in that business. frankly, unless you're getting som

. >> reporter: but for homeowners in the neighborhood like r.j. murray, there's a rub. the water district is raising rates to pay for more infrastructure projects like this. and that's not all. part of the reason the east bay municipal utility district is hiking fees is that during the california drought, urban area residents cut back on water use by more than 20%. that meant a decline in revenues for water districts throughout the state, and dozens of them have hiked rates to help pay for infrastructure. murray, who even stopped watering his backyard during the drought, is skeptical of the more than 9% increase next year. >> i don't think inflation is going up to that extent. i think it would be more fair and equitable if it stayed at pace with that. >> reporter: but east bay officials say their hands are tied. like many water districts, their fixed costs are 90% of their total costs, and revenues mostly come from water bills. with some infrastructure projects that were put on hold during the economic downturn nearly a decade ago, and rising water main breaks during th

. >>> let's bring in now ambassador r.j. woolsy. thank you, ambassador for coming on.ally yates testify today. and not only did the justice department have evidence that flynn lied to the vice president but that the russians did, too, and could blackmail him. as a form head of the cia, is it a dream come true to have a former national security advisor in that position? >> well, if all these statements are accurate, yes, it would be an advantage to the russians. but if you don't mind my saying so, i think we're looking at the wrong election. because if you want to make sure we don't have a russian take over of american votejerk we want to make sure we protect our electoral system, we've got to do something to these voting machines we have now, 25% of which have no paper. there are only electronic. which means once they're hacked, you can't do an effective recount. it is of utah most urgency to get voting machines for our next election fixed. we can go back any time we want and look what happened in this past election. form election council offices, it doesn't matter. we

in may 2016, officer mader arrived at the house of 23-year-old african american ronald "r.j."williams, jr., after williams' girlfriend called the police because he'd threatened to hurt himself. officer mader says he found williams holding a handgun and acting suicidal. mader says he was trying to de-escalate the situation and was urging williams to put down the gun, whehen two more pololie officersrs aiveded. one immediately opopenedire, killlling williams. the police later found william'' gun was not loaded. officer mader says one month later, he was informed he would be fired for "apparent difffficulties in critical incident reasoning." and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadadcasting from stanford university in california. president trump has appeared to a bombshells o of washington post story that he disclosed highly classified intelligence last week to russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and russian ambassador sergey kislyak last week, only -- during meeting at the white hous

. >> r.j. wolcott from lansing, michigan. when states are putting these plans together how can they ensure that the impact of poverty, you know, that poverty doesn't have a significant impact on achievement so that like michael said, districts that serve large populations of students in poverty aren't all just marked as failing. >> one thing i think that is you think about your metrics. i think it's really important to balance the access metrics with the student achievement metrics. so if you prioritize only student achievement on a standardized assessment score you will see the biases that come up in some of these metrics. so if you are simply just recreating your no child left behind plan you will see some of the same problems and mike is completely correct if all your high poverty schools in the state are ranked low that would be a sign to me that you are -- you would have to do some serious investigating about what's going on in the schools. maybe they're all failing but i think there's at least one school that could be s

advanced auto is r.j.'s favorite breakout hope trade in hard line retail.stry is seeing consistent growth about 2% and there's benign pricing environment to create the opportunity for management to improve earnings over the next five years but some will say, you know what maybe the auto industry has seen its peak and that's why the stock is down so much. >>> the final stock of the day, slightly smaller call e tesaro. >> it's a drug company. >> couldn't be any more opposite than refinery. bio tech massachusetts based. they're focussing on cancer treatments to avoid chemo therapy and do sickness as well as going overovarian cancer. they begin coverage on tesaro very bullish projects for its treatment for ovarian cancer. they think that it will account for most of its revenue. $183 on 17% upside. becky over to you? >> where did you come up with the music? i love it. >> 1987 cassio keyboard. back to you. >>> when we come back, companies behaving badly. a lot of a lot of examples recently. how is it happening and how do we change the culture. >>> the dow getting