Not sure who it is . Keep watching to find out. Even when they say its not it is always about money. Adam lets start with big money. The 64 billiondollar art world. We have an interview with amazon about the new art gallery, aaazon art. It is initial foray lets you browse everything from incredible affordable prints up to multimilliondollar monets. In a fox biness exclusive. Peter farisa, Amazon Marketplace general vice manager. I got lost on the site. I went in to check it out and amazed of everything on there, with 20 prints of sha gal and i like 20,000 prints out of my price range. Will you put galleries out of business because of this . Adam, thanks for iiting me on the show. Were super excited about the launching of amazon art. As you mentioned last tuesday we launched the new business which we think is terrific for customers. We launched with over 40,000, this is what youre describin you got lost in, over 40,000 unique pieces of fine art from over 4500 artists. So super exciting. To answer your question about galleries. Quite the contrary, actually. We launched with over 150 galleries who are our partners in venture and the galleries are very excited to reach over 100 million customers here in the u. S. And over 200 million customers worldwide. Adam worldwide. That was a loaded question. I set you up because some critics of what youre doing say that i read an article out of forbes which there was a ntleman who i think takes offense what youre doing. He said art is an investment. Sound if he is missing the point. Art is to pleasure for whatever reason. The people spending millions you point out need to have art authenticated perhaps at amazon that cant happen. All youre is bringing me to the consumer to the galley and the gallery still has to authenticate, do they not . They do. Authentication talking to our customers it is super important in the world of art. There are two things we do, one is the 150 galleries we launched with are some of the most reputable prestigious galleries in the world. So we know we have really good partners. Two, not just for amazon art but allurchases made on amazon we look out and protect customers. We have what is called the a to z guaranty which also applies to art. For any reason, you have a problem with the art purchase we always back up every single purchase customers make. I do think, galleries are very excited to be able to expand their reach. You know, when you think about a gallery in t city theyre in, maybe they can reach 100,000 or couple Million People but the idea of being able to reach, you know, 100 Million People in the u. S. , 200 Million People worldwide, it is very, very exciting for g galleries. Were happy to have them as our partners. Adam we talk about this being International Market of 64 billion. To put it in a little perspective the verinar industry just in the United States is 14 billion. This is a huge market and youre now bringing this to everybody. Yeah. Adam i found an artists. She lives in canada. You didnt have something of hers for sale and took me a gallery that hader work for sale. The way amazon revolutionized selfpublishing allowing writers to bypass publishers and publishing houses to make a profit without them, might you do that through artists where i could Commission Someone through amazon whose work i like . That is not the approach were taking through amazon art. We want the galleries to be able to feature all of their artists and pose a the great works of art to customers. If you can believe it, adam, we have 4500 different artists for you to check out. One things that makings the store very unique is that as you were sort of describing, as you discover an artist you can actually see all of their works of art. Not just one particular piece that you were looking at. But you can also discover other works of art from that gallery. We found so far from customer feedback, that is really portant. A lot of timesustomers start with a piece of work they like. They discover an artist but also discover a gallery they love. We really want to support galleries in our business. Adam let me pull back the picture of mao 93. A sour vintage if youre anticommunist. This is a piece of art by andy warhol forale for 200,000. People would buy pieces of work much lesshan 200,000. I isnt that the goal . Having people buy affordable pieces of art really brings it to everybody . Or will it be majority that is highpriced art . No, youre spot on, am. This launch allows art to be more approachable for lots of different types of art customers. You know, hard to see this on the site but 95 of the art we have for sale is under 10,000. A lot of it is really beautiful photography, limited Edition Prints and kind of that 100 to 200 range. If you think someone who will decorate their house, starting an Art Collection for the first time, we think weve got the Worlds Largest selection of fine art to go serve them well. Adam i have taken up a collection. Were close to the 4. 8 million in order to buy the Norman Rowell on the site. When you get to wyeth well we appreciate you being here. Amazon revolutionized some things you do and making art affordable to everybody. People need to b ptected. How about people buy art because they enjoy it and make their lis pretty good. Thanks so much for being here. Noise to talk to you. Adam next on money, can booze help save the post office . This is part after bold plan to put an end to the Epic Financial losses. Tom donahoe the u. S. Postmaster general will join us with all the details. Egypt is exploding with violence. At least 278 people are dead after a brutal government crackdown. Clashes are spreading across the country. Is american aid going to come to an end . An end . More when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals help the gulf recover and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. I can tell you safety is at the heart of everything we do. Weve added cuttingedge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a stateoftheart monitoring center,he experts watch over all drilling activity twentyfourseven. And wre sharing what weve learned, so we can all produce energy more safely. Our commitment has never been stronger. Adam everything changes. So now to a kind of delivery which would be new for the u. S. Post office and in a desperate hope o saving reven the agencys pushing a that would allow shipments of alcoholic beverage and boy do they need to do that. Just last week the Postal Service announce ad Third Quarter loss of 740 million bringing its yeartodate losses of nearly 4 billion. Can Alcohol Delivery uncork some huge profits. I spoke to the man behind the plan, postmaster general Patrick Donahoe a few moments ago. Welcome back to the program. A pleasure to have you here, sir. The loss is better than it has been in the past, is it not . Yes it is, adam. Weve got a lot of legislaon but it is in the house and senate and were encouraged with the progress. Adam one proposal is to allow the Postal Service which is not allowed to deliver alcohol. In fact i have ordered, there is a wine firm in california at ships through a private shipper but then, this would open it up, i could get it through the u. S. Postal service, correct. Sure. We think that theres a nice opportunity, especially if youre a small firm, a small winery or small microbrewery, the idea being able to pick something up there and put it in a priority flat rate box and sh it makes it convenient for both side. Adam i know all 50 states have different regulations over the sale and delivery of alcohol. Doesnt this become a bureaucratic nightmare for the United States post office . No. We follow the law. Right now you can ship wine in many states. There are different rules and of course we follow them. Adam this would raise as much as what, 50 million more a year for the Postal Service . Thats what we think. We think theres a nice opportunity. Adam so it is a revenue stream that should be pursued but at the end of the day it down nearly come close to closing the gap that the Postal Service faces. You have billions of dollars in losses every year. Yes we, the biggest thing for us is to get legislation passed as youve noted, that really results in a number about other very large issues, namely Health Care Costs that we have, are trying to resolve. The health care alone is a change of 8 billion on the yearly p l. It is guy began nick. And six to fiveday delivery. We want to move to a fiveday delivery sedule for mail, six on packages. That is worth 2 billion. That is big money. Adam that is big money. Why does on one Hand Congress is screaming and yelling at the Postal Service, whether accurately or not is poorly managed, and Postal Service says okay, weade a management decision well not deliver on saturday or sunday and congress ties your hands and doesnt let you go forward with that. Seems a little hypocritical, does it not . We have to work through those. You have different people looking at different issues and the key thing for us is to communicate and make sure that people understand the key issues that weve got to make changes on and why. We laid out a business plan. Very clear just like any other business. Looks ahead five years and lays out a number of actions that have to be tak to get us back on good financial footing. Adam as has been pointed outin countless newspaper articles and television reports, you might have a post office in one town next to the post office in another town not very far apart. Which is a waste of money. You want to close offices as well, postal offices to save revenue. Yet congress ties your hand on that. Doesnt seem in simple words, fair, youre trying to right the ship. Seems as if congress is in your way. A lot of changes create problems for people at home. We have a solution on post offices. We in fact have 26,000 post offices. Over next year half of them will ve to parttime hours. They will stay open. They will be affordable. That is issue we think is resolved at this point of th we have to get people focused on health care and six days to fiveday changes. Adam at the end of the day, i find it very complicated to to the point i dont truly understand it, the requirements the Congress Imposed on the Postal Service the last f years for funding your Health Care Retirement benefits are different than any other agency or even private business in this country has to adhere to. That puts you at disadvantage. That explains these tremendous losses. Is that an accurate statement . Thats correct. Were required by law to prefund retiree heth benefits. We have two retirement fnd for regular retirement. Theyre funded. Not a problem and were required now to prefund Retiree Health benefits. The problem it is don on much shorter payment schedule that we can afford and we needo address exactly what were paying. That is laid out by congress. Adam does anybody else in the United States have that prefunding requirement . No one in the United States is prefunding reqrement and even worse, no one inhe united ates is required to overpay for Retiree Health benefits and not take full advantage of medicare which were the second largest payer into. There are two things we need to fix. Adam mr. Donahoe, appreciate you being here. I lived overseas and i appreciate the service from the United StatesPostal Service and even with cost of stamps on occasion going u it is cheer than someplaces i lived. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you, adam. Adam next on money, deadly chaos in egypt. A crackown on the Muslim Brotherhood supporters leave 278 people dead. Could this be the final straw for u. S. Aid to egypt . We have new details for you. Much more money coming up after this. Adam now the deadly situation in egypt. New reports that almost 300 people have been killed as of today including a veteran cameraman from our Sister Network sky news out of england. Hundreds more were hurt after violent clashes between prorsi protesters and the state Security Forces of the as of right now, egypts interim Vice President has resigned and the interim president , adly mansour, has declared a monthlong state of emergency. Plus there are cure fews which have been issued on more than one dozen cities throughout the country. Needless to say the drastic situation has our government, the u. S. Government, reviewing the 1. 3 billion in aid we provide to egypt annually. We want to bring in the president of the American Islamic forum for democracy to help us understand exactly whats at stake here. And when we see this kind of violence in what had been, i dont want to say a democratic country because it had been a military dictatorship under the previous president s but this cant be good in any way. There any Silver Lining to any of it . Well, i think theilver lining would be there if they were getting some adult supervision from the leaders of the free world like the president who is unfortunately finding it more important to play golf and be on vacation. They need a time out. See the evolution of the two strong horse, secular fascists of Egyptian Military versus ismists of the islamists since they were ousted they didnt have a democracy. They were authoritarian in their processes. Only thing democratic they did was getthe military had fed inte they were taken out of power, they stoked violence. They want to become victims. They want to become martyrs. They burned over 20 churches. They even recently destroyed a youth center. The military rather than respond with calm has actually stoked the violence more so and is on the edge of a civil war. Adam thats whats so troubling here. I mean egypt is the largest arabic nation. It has got the largest population. You have so many different kinds of people who live there. You have Christian Coptics and sunni muslims and shiite muslims. The majority are not radal muslims we see in the streets or are they . We saw the largest demonstrations in humanity, adam, happen ad month ago when ey ousted the Muslim Brotherhood. What 60 years of oppression and violence against the brotherhood could not do, one of them trying to run democracy, rising from five to 10 million in the street, 30 million, alstalf the population signed a plebiscite to have them removed. Mostly 90 are muslim. They dont want the islamists but they have not been able to thread the needle of democracy, they get lost between the two fascisms, mubarak era military which we see back to their violent ways and brotherhood which are into putting into place a Islamic State and controlling through sharia and theocracy. Adam i will bring this up in form of our discussion for understanding but would it make sense to continue u. S. Aid because perhaps we could put influence on the military to transition to a democracy or democratic government made upf that majority of people who are not radicalized . Well, adam we have to put the aid into context. Remember, already, most of our 2013 aid of the 1 point 5 billion already has been sent to egypt. So recently the senate pan looked at this and they were looking at 2014. If were going to stay relevant we have to say we dont want to destablize egypt completely but that is leverage. How big of a leverage is that . You remember saudi arabia, kuwait and the emirates already promised 12 billion to egypt in the next year. Adam yes. Imf has 4. 8. Theyre looking, we could leverage that. Our biggest point, adam, help them build party politics. Help them build institutions of democracy and truly lead the free world. It is not just about economic aid. Adam how if youre the authority in egypt now, the military government and you have 30 million who are leery of you but clearly prefer you to the vience in the street, how can you prevent this . Im looking at thecreen right now a i realize this might be the minority, but that is getting attention of cameras across the world. Well the act of the Vice President today, elbaradei resign something a act of cowardice. The ones against the violence, that want to thread the needle through peaceful evolution into democracy need to stay in power and put pressure on both side of this violent equation that benefits both of them and say the people want peaceful transition and start to say that this is not the way both needs the timeout and say we are going to bring human Rights Groups in, now they turned away and reneged saying they would be transparent and put the pressure of the free world upon them right now which they are not seeing and were becoming me and more irrelevant, rather than being relevant into their transition and call upon people like elbaradei to stay there and say well push the military to be fair and also push away islamists from driving sectarian violenceeand ripping apart egypt in their sort of vision to control theocrat i cannily egypts future. Adam we appreciate you being here. We watched at one point the cradle of civilization. Now the cradle sill of cradle of unrest in. Thanks very much, adam. Adam futures hit a high driven on fears of middle east oil supplies. Along with growing production disruptions in libya fueled the growingnxiety. It is brent crudes Third Straight session gains. U. S. Oil production struck a 24year high last week. That is according to the Energy Information administration. Output climbed to nearly 7. 6 miion barrels a day. That is the highest level since december 1989. Natural gas prices could coming to an end. Below than normal temperatures for the northeast and mideast wont be around much longer. Temperatures are expected to get hot in a week or some that sent natural gas futures dumping. Relatively cool weather put a dent in natural gas demand but it was sure welcome here in manhtan. Next on money, two former jpmorgan traders are charged i the london whale scandal. Who should pick up the tab for whitecollar crimes . We get an allstar panel to weigh in on that one. Who made money today . It was a rough day on markets but these guys are not playing the blues tonight. A hedge fund giant gave them one grand deal and well tell you why. Stick around. Piles of money coming right up. We happen to live in aim too where not Just One Bank but one trader within one bank can do catastrophic economic harm in practically the blink of an eye and recent history bears that out. And that is why prosecutors need to be even more aggressive. Regulators need to be even more vigilant and as i have been saying for some years now, companies themselves need to pay closer attention to the cultures that they create much. Adam that was u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york Preet Bharara speaking about the impact of the nowinfamous jpmorgan lonn whale trade. Two former traders were hit with charges for their involvement in the scandal. Ashley webster has the latest what is going on and what could happen to those two gentlemen of the ashley. Indeed, adam. Javier martinartajo and julien grout are charged with fr counts including fraud and falsifying records. A major fudging of the books say the prosecutor the department of justice is confirming that the man who actually executed trades, bruno iksil, the socalled, london whale, i cooperating with the government and will not be prosecuted of earlier today the fbi sounded off on this case and what it could mean to future investigatns. The defendants, this is a quote. The defendants are concerned about losing control to other traders at the ban fudged the numbers on their daily book and in some cases completely made them up. It brought a whole new meaning to cooking the books. This should be a warning to bankers and trade everywhere. Integrity c not be sacrificed in the producing of income and profitability. The fbi will continue to investigate these cases so long as people fail to heed that messag strong words from prosecutors. Arrests have not been made. Calls to attorneys for both men charged have not been returned. Adam. Adam this means that there could be others chargedn the london whale case or is this the end of it . There e other investigations. Federal reserve. U. S. Banking authority in the u. K. Both traders were based in london. The u. K. Financial conduct authority is also looking into this. So the investigation isnt over. We should point out that martinartajo is a spanish citizen. Julien grout is a french citizen. The question will they turn themselves in to investigators here in the United States. Prosecutors are hopeful that will happen but d defense will they mount . Will they cut a deal or say look, this was approved by our superiors. That could open up a whole can of worms. That i not good news for jpmorgan chase. Adam you bring up a great point a can of worms. Yeah. Adam two gentlemen they have to prosecute if guilty and two gentlemen might have broken the law and cost the bank roughly 6 or 7 billion. Versus investments banks, commercial banks, ratings agency, freddie mac an fannie mae which cost the entire economy cost us 7 trillion and good that the government is on top of it. Which have two what you would call midlevel executives here being found guilty but the question here how far up the chain does it two . Will that come out in this case. Wille interesting to follow. Adam banks sometimes get to plead neither guilty or not guilty. Thats right. Adam ashley webster, ank you very much. Well change the subject who will pay the legal fees because at love this is tied to the power of money and it is feeding the growing debate on wall street over who should pay all those legal bills. Whitecollar criminal cases seem to be more prevalent than ever but they dont all seem to be treated equally and that goes no matter whafirm is involved, whether it is Goldman Sachs or sac capital, both of which have been dealing with cminal scandals asf late. Joining us now, james tracy former coo of monster woride. Well call him jim, who was convicted of whitecollar criminal activity himself. Mark calabria, Cato Institute and teresa gooding, former attorney with the sec. I want to talk to you first from a person who has been on the other side of this. If you had to pay your legal fees out of your pocket from the getgo, doesnt the government have an advantage . The abilit to tax is ability to destroy . The ability to prosecute is the ability to commit nuclear annihilation, is it not . They have enormous advantage. The deficit is running. If they are after a case they can spend as much as they want as they continue to go after it. Often times many people who plead guilty. Doesnt necessarily mean they are guilty. Either their scared of prison or will you bankrupt me and leave my family destitute. Adam that is a great point. Would it be appropriate to forbid companies to pay legal fees of employees in these situations or would that be counter in getting fair, democratic judicial process. It absolutely should not be forbidde there is a place for indemnification but it certainly shouldnt be a blanket rule. You have several different factors coming into play. To get in good executiveand directors you do need indemnification agreements. You have to think about the shareholders and the companies and should they have to pay the legal fees of wrongdoers, of people who are cheating, lying and stealing . No. There is a balance. Adam i dont mean to be snarky, but board of directors caring about shareholders of a company . That would be new in a lost cases. Let me bring in mark. Weve seen examples, for instance, sac capital are paying legafees of two gentlemen who could be flipped and testify at others at sac and will not pay fees of a gentleman who has already flipped. What does it say to the average american how all this works . This is interesting dynamics. These agreements need to be laid out at beginning of a an employment relationship. Over back and forth will we pay your legal fees, will we not pay your legal fees depending depent you say i think is problematic. We saw this coordination in the fabulous fab ce where his lawyers talked to the goldman lawyers. It raises questions where you dont want a situation where the firm says, well pay your legal fees if you cop to this and be the fall guy. You really want to have clear rules ahead of time. Now again, i think the question of whetheroure going to roll over and youre going to, you know, testify on past government and theyre not going to pay your legal fees, thats reasonable. I dont think a company should be required to pay legal fees of somebody testifying against the company. That is probably going a little too far. For employeoing things generally within the line of their business, were not talking about Companies Paying your legal fees because you rn a school bus of children off the road on your way to work. Were talking about is this within the scope of your employment. That really has to be the relevant question to me. Adam jim, in the case of Raj Rajaratnam or group at that out of the Raj Rajaratnam. After he lost the case they went to get them back. What do you think of that . Can you rela to that any way . I suspect theyre trying to claw back fees because it is a favorable position to take for the government. Actually governmmnt would like to pick up pressure. Indemnification would say they have the right to do that if they like to but they dont necessary have to. Adam you want to chime in. If i could interject because goldman is formed in delaware and there is a law that prohibits companies from paying legal fees of its employees if they have done adam found guilty . Not just guilty but they have to hav acted in bad faith. So, you know adam callingaj rajaratnam to tell them about a major deal, i guess that would be bad faith. Insider trading is bad faith but, with fabrice he was arguably adam doing what goldman is telling him too although they have never been charged with that. For sure. Exactly. Within the scope of his employment. Adam yes. Which was selling a bogus series it wasnt bogus. It was legitimately bad. He didnt tell the people it was bad and person on other end structured it to be bad. Mark, let me bring you in to this. My ignorance, thousand ought you will the firms had insurance and people footing bill were insurance compies who covered csuite plans. Thats true. And that is going to be true even in thease of midlevel employees. It is not simply the case for the directors and executives. My suspicion i dont know details with fabrice. My suspicion goldman will get insurance to cover that one as well. I do want to emphasize, i think theres a big difference between civil case or criminal case. You have to take that into consideration. But i think it is important to keep in mind, the is so much litigation goes on and a number of people are innocent and a numberf people are guilty. You dont want the innocent to have very large litigation costs to defend themselves. Adam sure. Especially if it is in the line. Im not one to sacrifice the rights or professions of accused or whether they are bankers, drug dealers or anybody else. Think they are protections we need to keep in place. Adam quickly, jim, there is difference between a civil and criminal case. Lets wrap this up. In the criminal cas it furthers business of company and dispuue over regulators f that gets criminalized the company is more likely to come and try to separate themselves from you than they do on the civil side just to please the prosecutors and get away from it. Adam i appreciate all three of you being here. Well cue the lapone song, dont cry for me, Goldman Sachs. Coming up on money, cocacola is putting forth a whole new Marketing Strategy not on flavor but a controversial ingredient in its diet drinks. Is this the new way to make ney . A top marketing maven will weigh in on that one. At the end of the day, it is always about money. Adam no matter what time it is money is always on the move. Shares of Cisco Systems are slumping afterhours. Tech giant tending losses after reporting Fourth Quarter earnings and they missed on revenue. The Company Announced plans to cut 4,000 jobs or 5 of its workforce as it tries to reduce its expenses. A new ad Campaign Today by cocacola is taking some people by surprise because the beverage giant ca out and took sides on a controversial ingredient in its diet drinks, aspartame. Cocacola is calling the artificial sweetener something, and this is a quote, something people can feel good about. This is interesting stance for th company. The fda approved aspartame 30 years ago. Safety concerns continue to the plague the website. Although the American Cancer Society on its website says there is nothing dangerous about it. Is promoting aspartame a good move or could this whole thing backfire . To help us understand all this, marketing guru peter shenkman. Thanks for joining us. Lets be real simple, the slogan or statement that cocacola is using, something to the effect of feel good about it. Adam feel good about it but not good for you. Am i picng up sort of a mad men. Fouro five doctors say pall malls are healthy cigarettes. Adam prefer this cigarette. Same thing for cocacola to do, to steak a stand at all is really interesting because they tend to stay out of that. They don talk about the ingredients and have nice shiny can an have celebrities promoting it. Adam who doesnt loveoke . It is not hurtful. Doesnt hurt them in the short or long run. If in 10 years we find it is bad for then, they are in trouble anyway, they are coming under fire whether they make something with sugar with artificial corn, not artificial or corn sweeteners, or artificial sugars. These are the new boogeyman in society. These are a shot across the bow. Theyre not fighting bloomberg. 64ounce wont make you fat. They will not say th it has 80,000 tablespoons of sugar. They will not say that diet coke has no calories and wont make you fat and stuff in it probably wont kill you. Adam it is not a probly. We have to retie, i realize that if my aunt were a man she would be my uncle. That is a fun expression. Here is why i bring it up. The science is clear. Aspartame is not harmful. There is nothing conclusive. The reason it seems, this is on the American Cancer Society website. Seems people believe it is harmful there was a study that was discredited years ago, it was discredited because the people who had developed cancer, most likely they deveped caer years prior to aspartame ing introduced into the market. Theyre not, again, is this going, the real question is this going to affect sales or people who drink diet coke . The answer is no. If you have a diet coke addiction they could tell you grind up children and put them in and exactly, if you have a diet coke addiction you will not stop. Same people who smoke cigarette and dont want to quit. They know it is bad for you. This stuff is not even proven bad. Adam this is not defense for them. Thats the point. Adam if 20 years from now god forbid it is proven these products are harmful, coke said you should drink in moderation. F theyre harmful 20 years from now theyre in trouble. If the science says theyre not harmful you and are having a discussion based on a premise faulty at this point based on our understanding this is canner rouse. Anything in 20ears could be harmful. That is the stance coke is taking. There is nothing wrong with that they should port support the product and im thirsty now. Adam at end. Day does coke win with this move or do they lose. They dont lose, put it that way. Adam you sound like someone on television. That is the most monn commit call noncommittal. They shade disco music was harmful 20 years ago and now call it dance music. Thanks for being here, peter shenkman on melissa franciss money. Adam we have news run the deadly plane crash this morning. We want to go to ashley webster. This is many coming from chairman and ceo, scott davis, all of us at ups extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friend of the two crewmembers. Pilot and copilot are dieing this morning. Our efforts are primarily focused on helping the families. There you can see the quote there. The flight this morning. Those two pilots were flying an airbus a300 left from louisville, kentucky to birmingham, alabama. The ntsb now on scene to conduct the investigation and of course ups putting out that statement saying saying that primary concern is for the families of the two airmen that were lost in this crash this morning. And of course, you know, as you know, adam, ups spends a lot of time in the air getting these packages from one placeo the next. And, the cause of this accident, this plane going down just short of the airport in alba. Theyre looking of course for the black box. They will go through all the data to find out exactly with causes that crash. That is the latest statement we have from ups. Adam ashley webster, ty operate the 14th lgest airline in the world. 400,000 employees at ups are mourning the tragedy. Thanks for t update from scott davis. Ashley webster in the newsroom. Next on money he fired a worker with a thousand employees listening in. No aol Ceo Tim Armstrong says, im sorry. Really sorry. Is it enough to extinguish a firestorm of bad publicity . I cant even talk. Publicity. Even a possible lawsuit. Weve got it all in spare change. You can never have too much money. Adam for a little fun with spare change, were joined b veronica dagger and the tony sayegh. The star of karate kid. No he is not ralph macchio. Latest turn in a story everyone taub about aol this week. It all began with Ceo Tim Armstrong, publicly firing a high level employee in the middle after 1,000 Person Company conference call. Listen to this. From an abel, put at that camera down right now. Abel, youre fired , out. Adam then he went on with the call. Now armstrong is apologizing to all of his staffers for the shocking incident. Abel, who was his creative doctor, had been warned several times not to film during meetings. That is why armstrong fired him. Armstrong is working to turn aol around, here is the question, how do you thi this will impact all of that and what he is trying to do. What do you think, veronica . Doesnt sound so nasty if the guy had been warned . It was nasty. From a pr standpoint. Im not aublicist but i talked to my friend who are publicists, from a pr standpoint this looks really bad. This is not a good move. There are some other ways adam in private. In private to obviously fire someone. You want to put the company in the most positive light ssible. To put this out there is a real distraction. Adam dont you think he was auditiing to be Donald Trumps replacement . If things didnt work out at aol, right. Adam doesnt sound like things are working out so well. Ertainly with the patch. I had no idea that aol owned the patch. Adam armstrong sold it to aol and still failing. Still failing. In any event you dont have a great business. The fact that he issued a four paragraph statement detailing, apology to this individual, shows that knows he made a mistake. Usually because executives have to keep cool even under pressure. And he, while not sounding unhied did do something seemed impulsive. Adam isnt that the key . Apology explaining all this shows, it he was truly in the right, veronica, to fire the guy. That would have been the case. I think is probably worried on some aspect this will beurned into a lawsuit. In new york, you can fire someone. Adam of course you can fire someone. Abel, are you watching . Reputational damage to abel could be huge. But at same time, there are other websites such as business insider, put abels resume up there. Adam veronica, tony, appreciate you being here. Tim armstrong, if youre watching for the donald trump song. Up next , who made money today . Heres hint, john paulson. Hedge fund titan giant is is hitting all the right cords for him. Well have the answer. 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