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Against iran, sudan, and two other countries. the u.s. treasury is selling its remaining stake in aig for just under $8 billion. that ends the era of government ownership. on the street, hp, the dows worst performer shot up on rumors that activist investor carl icahn is building a stake in the pc maker. meanwhile mcdonalds gave blue chips a boost in better than expected sales. apple and google have reportedly combined their competing bids for a bundle of kodak patents. former imf chief domin...

Fiscal cliff worries put a damper on todays triple digit rally but the dow ends with a 78 point gain, the s&p up 9, the nasdaq adds 35 points. aig shares jumped nearly 6%. the treasury department says it has sold all its remaining shares netting a $22.7 billion profit for taxpayers. and on the economic front, the trade deficit widened in october as exports posted their biggest decline in nearly four years. thats it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." ♪ welcome b...

Megyn: and theyre paying cash for them. again, theyre focusing in large part on states hit hard by the recession and foreclosures. so we sit around and say the chinese are buying everything, but we need somebody to buy it. >> no question about it. it is part of the deal that we have made, good or bad or even, perhaps, worse than people imagine. these foreign holders of our debt are looking for direct investments. theyre doing so in companies, you mentioned aig. weve just seen a deal in the canad...

The asset. martha: how different than what happened with japan in the 80s. seems like they owned every building in new york. >> back in the 80s and very early 90s japan actually overpaid. they bought the pebble beach golf course in california and bought rockefeller center in new york. various other properties and paid huge dollars for them and lot of their shirts. this time around with china is not the case. you cant say theyre paying a lot of money for aigs plane leasing business or a123. marth...

A drone strike. pakistani intelligence officials say abu saiid kuwaiti was killed. and he was presented as a religious scholar for the group. he was promoted second-in-command earlier this year. back to the economy now, china apparently going on an american spending spree. a chinese company agreed to buy a big chunk of insurance giant aig for more than $4 billion after the company got a huge bailout during the u.s. financial crisis. that is not the only bargain that china is picking up from u....

Aig -- another company that got a cash infusion -- is selling its jet-leasing business to a group of chinese financial firms. earlier this year the biggest take over of an american company to date, amc entertainment, going to china for $2.6 billion, and in january of this year the chinese company cinepec bought a one-third stake in five u.s. shale oil and gas fields. in fact, china has spent some $17 billion buying u.s. companies up in just the last two years. joining me now to discuss it, lou d...

>> gretchen: hey, good morning everyone. its monday, december 12, 20120. im gretchen carlson. did you hear about the daring rescue of american doctor leaving a navy seal dead? so what was that doctor actually doing in afghanistan where it happened? the brand-new details coming up. >> brian: breaking their silence, the djs who made a prank call leading to the suicide of a nurse. theyre now talking. >> if we had any idea that something like this could have been even possible to happen, you know, w...

And he won an election. i dont see it that way. he wants to get what he wants to get. the republicans have men of negotiating strength. maybe they even have the upper hand. ive been hearing everyone says the president has the upper hand. i think maybe the republicans in a certain way do because they have the debt ceiling coming up. they should use that and they should use it very strongly. >> steve: im sure there is going to be some wheeling and dealing. >> but id use it now and get this thing d...

Segregation sometime today. all right. youre good. >> [ mum >> reeves, will you just switch out jump suits for me, man? i need the orange one back. and pack all yr >> you got these young guys. some of them dont care. so they all get smart. you can see his demeanor was a tried to lie a little bit, sitting at his seat.l so right there, he tried to lie his way out of it. >> damn! >> aig surveillance footage not only revealed the truth, upon close examination, it g about the bin properties of jail ...

>> time for your news by the numbers on this monday morning. first, 2,000. thats about how many dead people are still receiving food stamps in new york and massachusetts. 2,000. a report by the usda, the department of agriculture, uncovered the massive errors. and next 88. thats the percentage of they say vets are concerned for the war. and $182 billion. thats how much tax pays are she would out to save aig. now the ceo of aig said the company wants a pat on the back. he say the feds failed to s...