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Friday. dont feel bad for walmart. the company that earned more than $466 billion in revenues in the 2013 fiscal year has enlisted none other than sir elton john to perform as part of the events surrounding their annual shareholders meeting. walmart will also have to use some of their earnings to pay $82 billion in fines after pleading guilty on tuesday to improperly dumping hazardous wastes in california and missouri. for walmart, thats pocket change. so is change reallying co incom walmart? ed...

Ball to see that. >> the income gap is so out of control. you know, we cant just keep vilifying them either. if you just keep vilifying walmart and not figure out a way to work with them, were never going to get anywhere. if you look at -- i looked at 466 billion was -- the next highest retailer in the world only had 113 billion in sales. they are three times larger. theyre not going away. we have to praise their efficiency and what they do well and we have to challenge them on deficiencies and ...

Military. some of these things, like medicare, back to the states. medical malpractice reform, strengthen work force by attrition. ive got the bill and its there and i want people to look it up. its senate bill 3473. it solves the problem. we have other ways. whatever happened to the old democrats? remember it was kennedy back in the 60s that said we got to raise more money, more revenue for the great society programs and the bestncrease revenue is to reduce marginal rates. he did it and what ha...

How worried are you about automatic across the board cuts? >> well, im very worried about it. speaking from experience, having lived through a period when the military was made a bill payer for the federal government and we saw what happened as far as the reduction of ammunition and fuel and spare parts, and when i deployed in 2003 we saw we didnt have enough body armor. my humvee was one of many that didnt have the up-armor which would have been a bad day for me if the ieds had started early. t...

Bill: what about your tea party supporters that say you have got to bring this stuff down somehow. >> we already looked at cuts in the department of defense by $466 billion the next 10 years. but we have to look at many different government agencies. fails duplicative programs. why do we have a department of commerce and a u.s. chamber of commerce. a department of energy that was created 40 years ago to make the united states of america energy dependent yet are dependent on foreign energy source...

Gets busy there are extra staff to help. >> reporter: toys "r" us, target and best buy are among some of the other larger retailers that say theyç are bulking up on this extra staffing. >> gregg: i know macys was jammed yesterday in manhattan. they were having a sale of course. that invites the question, are stores expecting to do well? >> reporter: they are. the projections look good. from my -- it seems like the stores in los angeles are packed as well, i cant believe it is already time for ...

>> when it comes to economy we will certainly take that good news. the retailers are expecting to rake in big bucks this holiday season. in fact they are predicting holiday sales will grow nearly 3% this year over last. if that rings true, consumers will be spending about $466 billion in the next couple of months. so many of the biggest retailers bulking up staff to handle that rush. macys will hire the largest number looking to add about 78,000 temporary workers to their payroll which is 4% mor...

Hrá is not clear how many of those temporary jobs could turn permanent much of that depends on how successful the retailers are this year. >> speaking of that, how well are they expected to do? >> reporter: the projections look encouraging. thats one of the reasons why they are hiring more this year. holiday satisfies expected to grow nearly 3%ç in 2011, up 5% from 2009. if all of that translates that means people could spend 466 billion dollars at stores this holiday season. those retailers ...

To last if that rings true it means consumers will shell out an estimated 466 billion dollars over the next couple of months. many of the biggest retailers bulking up its staff. macys will hire the most looking toç add about 78,000 temporary workers to the payroll, which is 4% higher than last year. toys "r" us the worlds largest toy company will hire roughly 40,000 extra as will kohls, a 5% increase. >> the amount of hours a seasonal associate can work is a few hours a week up toç 20 hours....

halfway around the world, thousands of michael jackson fans are attending a tribute concert in wales today. the pop icons three children are attending it also. several of jacksons siblings are performing. it comes as jacksons physician stands trial for involuntary manslaughter in the singers death. for the first time this week, we heard dr. conrad murrays interview with detectives. >> everything happened very quickly. just about the time i was gone and i came back. so i started immedia...