trying to take an analytical approach to it. we could really use some help and guide annuaance in that are take the emotional issue out of moving forward. when trying to understand your business as an exit strategy, it s important to get a couple of data points. one is public markets. can you look at companies who do similar things, even though they are much bigger companies, there s normally a multiple on revenue and underlying data. the second thing you can do, you can look at how much cash the business is throwing off. what s the ebida, the growth rate. those are variables that give
chevron did not confirm the rumor. it does not comment on speculation. however, watson s likely exit comes during a dramatic time for oil companies. google and walmart, they re teaming up to take on amazon. walmart will start offering hundreds of thousands of products on google platforms including voice ordering through google assistant. a direct threat to amazon s voice shopping with alexa. it is the first time walmart is selling its products not on its own site. a team up does not ensure success over amazon. amazon is still the primary stop for most online shoppers but i m telling you every retailer out there, anybody who sells anything has an amazon strategy because it s just a category killer. i do not have an exit strategy. i m still coming to work at 2:00 a.m. when i win the lottery. i m just taking the helicopter. thanks for joining us.
if they will leave the door open. the president giving influence to his generals. his generals, like everyone else, looking for the exit strategy. the affidavit began president says the strategy going forward is a political one, and whether it can be achieved or not, the door does seem to be here to be opened to the taliban. and just adding there president trump did differentiate between the taliban and isis and al qaeda. crush al qaeda, oblitrat isis. taliban obliterate isis. taliban, stop them from taking the territory. they control more than before the u.s. invasion. you know, clearly, clearly a big problem. thanks. the president s speech on afghanistan started on a rather surprising note. he attempted to first address the visions here at home in the wake of the charlottesville attack. he did not specifically mention the violence in charlottesville but was clearly attempting to clean up some of the explosive comments with this reference to
putting that on our withdrawals. if you have to do this, do it, but i think the american people would want an exit strategy as well. an exit strategy was the that s what obama i think there was just weariness, this has been a the longest war in american history. people want to know we re not going to have troops there another 16 years. 1%, if that. both the service members and their families who bear the deaths, the injuries, the separations. et cetera. ron brownstein, from a political perspective, i m going to ask you to look at this straight as a political analyst. how does the american public respond to that, more troops these are ifs at this point. more troops going to america s longest war, it will inevitably lead to more deaths, more swrirs, more losses? more financial costs?
was pretty maul around that. was it smaller than you expected and did you have any problems with them and when did you decide to put them in transport vans? i didn t anticipate a whole lot. we had meetings with the individual who was leading it. and based on our discussions, i knew what we got, i expected to tell you the truth and that s why we had strategy. and we had the exit strategy out the back that worked well unfortunately as you ve seen, we had some kids block the street and it got a little confrontational, but they were given every opportunity to move as you re seeing, we had to do a little pushing and shoving there, but even then, i was there, they were getting hit with bottles. getting pushed and i thought they did a good job moving that crowd. so, you know, the plan went off the way we hoped to and thank god nobody got hurt seriously. in fact, very little injury and very little property damage today.