Employees, they do not. Jason much more of that ahead but we begin with our top stories. A busy week in d. C. With impeachment hearings. Trade talks hitting a series of road bumps. So much more and legislation passed by congress, supporting hong kong protesters. Lets break it down with Ryan Teague Beckwith in d. C. So ryan, help us understand everything that happened there in the nations capital. Ryan yeah. This was a long week. And i think the last news day was june 15, 2015. Last slow news day was june 15, 2015. [laughter] this was a particularly newsy week. The sondland testimony from the ambassador to the e. U. On what day was that even . Thats how long of a week its been. Jason wednesday. The sondland testimony on wednesday established pretty definitively that there was at least one quid pro quo holding out the white house meeting in exchange for investigations into the bidens. Sondland testified that he was not definitively sure that there was a second quid pro quo on the aide bu
Jason visa c. E. O. Al kelly, no relation, says consumers are still swiping and tapping despite talk of a recession. Carol and then theres this weeks cover story. Google and the generals. The search giant wants to build its military business, its employees they do not. Jason much more of that ahead but we begin with our top stories. A busy week in d. C. With impeachment hearings. Trade talks hitting a series of road bumps. So much more and legislation passed by congress, supporting hong kong protesters. Lets break it down with Ryan Teague Beckwith in d. C. So ryan, help us understand everything that happened there in the nations capital. Ryan yeah. This was a long week. And i think the last news day was june 15, 2015. [laughter] this was a particularly newsy week. The sondland testimony from the ambassador to the e. U. On what day was that even . Thats how long of a week its been. Wednesday. The sondland testimony on wednesday established pretty definitively that there was at least one
The search giant wants to build its military business, its employees they do not. Jason much more of that ahead but we begin with our top stories. A busy week in d. C. With impeachment hearings. Trade talks hitting a series of road bumps. So much more and legislation passed by congress, supporting hong kong protesters. Lets break it down with Ryan Teague Beckwith in d. C. So ryan, help us understand everything that happened there in the nations capital. Ryan yeah. This was a long week. And i think the last news day was june 15, 2015. [laughter] this was a particularly newsy week. The sondland testimony from the ambassador to the e. U. On what day was that even . Thats how long of a week its been. Wednesday. The sondland testimony on wednesday established pretty definitively that there was at least one quid pro quo holding out the white house meeting in exchange for investigations into the bidens. Sondland testified that he was not definitively sure that there was a second quid pro quo
Behind the rain forest cafe and gumpegum trip bubba shrimp. We are clearly going to have a great morning, we have breaking news on one of my favorite subjects, activist investing. A big update, the drug Company Behind botox and those implants, people with knowledge of the matter say that the drugmaker activist are in town to buy the company for 60 billion, higher than a hostile offer from another pharmaceutical company, valiant. The bid, of course, is backed by bill ackman. Either way. Ll wins this is true. Look at what is happening with activist shares. They have a high stock price, rising, but of course we want to show you what is happening with allergan. It would be a 60 billion deal under discussion here. We have to draw a distinction, activist is a drug company, ergan look at the stock, both of them today, bill ackman remember, he has come out aggressively against Senior Management at allergan. Now that he has to change his hat and simply be an allergan guy, how does he feel about
Market makers on Bloomberg Television. I am Erik Schatzker. I am Stephanie Ruhle. Im here at the nasdaq at the founder summit. This brings in great names like aero and oculus, and the bankers to represent them including Goldman Sachs and blackstone. P are hot. Is stephanie, looking forward to it all. On assignment not too far away in midtown manhattan this morning. In the meantime, the monthlong feud between ebay and carl icahn appears to be over. This will give him confidential access to the company, and he has withdrawn his demands for a paypal spinoff and 2 seats on the board. I spoke to ceo john donahoe in the morning, who characterizes this as a win for shareholders. I asked him, why give carl icahn anything at all. What he has done is seeing the potential in the opportunity in our company. So he is becoming a longterm shareholder, which i think is a winwin. And dave dorman is coming on as an independent director. An independent director that i respect and that carl respects. I th