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Imperative for these companies. they are playing for their shareholders. im not saying in a negative way. thats the business they are in. the answer to your question is the free market is not going to allow -- actually, nor should it allow for frankly companies to say it is our job to live for -- it is companys jobs to make profits for their shareholders. that is a harsh reality of capitalism and so its got to come from other places and that is just, guys, it is what it is. and am what it am. >>...

So lets get to the news here. a couple of different issues. >> one quick thing here. i didnt see too many of you at the parade in suwannee, tennessee, this last week. >> im sorry. was that fun? >> of course, it was. miss franklin county. donny, i thought you would be there. >> i tried to get down there. >> the runway is not long enough for the jet? >> sounds like miss crabtree would fit right? >> we need to find a picture of her. everybodys crush as a little boy. >> here is the question. do yo...

Stock market bubble? >> two things. companies that trade mostly in the u.s., fresh services companies, retail companies and people like that you can raise wages and have higher minimum wage. >> you can? its not hard? you cant be driven by uncertainty and keep them down? >> you have higher wages. it gets more implicated is wages have to be competitive. we can do stuff like that. the real way to get wages up, in effect, what the fed is trying to engineer which is lower unemployment, puts more pres...

That a lot of folks have worried about, that its becoming uglier if that seemed possible, because of the immediacy, the number of people that mika was asking you why the secretary was having a hard time answering the question that david gregory was asking. well, the answer was the congressman who came on afterward and the answer is rick perry, because this is politically a very difficult issue, mostly on the republican right. i think that -- i think the president should probably address it more ...

Track corporate processes since before the recession began in 2008. matches that up with wages. red line are corporate profits. the blue line are wages. you can see that corporate profits are up by 35% over this period, this ruffle five, six-year period almost. wages only up 5.3%. this is before inflation. the average worker has gotten an increase over six-year period of 5.3% and has to deal with inflation. >> here is my question. so many experts come to the table here, especially those who are ...

Statements criticizing israeli what happened and wanted -- this is a boy from tampa, florida. this is an american citizen. the u.s. doesnt get involved in what they consider internal israeli/palestinian issues until something like this happens. this is an american question. they sent a counselor right wawy to get this kid out of de. he says he was a bystander. the israelis are saying something else. you can see from the response from netanyahu who came out with his wife yesterday and talked abou...

Democracization of information that years ago if you had 7 billion voices speaking up, you would always get this level of cynicism. you didnt have this level of what ill call -- >> i think its deeper than that. >> look. we are a bloated empire and no question about that. the facts are the facts. i do think part of the black cloud here is the ability and thank god there is the ability of this mass communication -- >> but the reality is there. >> yes. >> the reality is there. >> but we are struggl...

Operation with the u.s. special forces. they didnt have to make the decision in terms of where to try him, where to deal with all of that. this a much different situation. as you say, theyve got one suspect in custody, were told by u.s. officials, but theyre still looking for more. this president has been under great political pressure, republicans have that special committee in the house investigating exactly what happened with the benghazi terror attack, investigating the after math of whether...

Don. >> again, as our viewers are just joining us, cnn has obtained photographs that the ukrainian government asserts and the u.s. government believes to prove russian instigators in the eastern part of that country. im discussing with our foreign affairs correspondent what it all means and what do we know about this. elise, obvious question, what happens next, now that this is proof, what does the international community do, if anything? >> well, don, these photos have been floating around sinc...

And they say i dont want to be ripped off on the stock market market, i ban -- theres always something deeper going on than what the topic is. youve done three big wall street books. what are these books actually about? what is it that compels you? youre not a financial journalist -- >> thank you, thank you. thats absolutely true. >> why is wall street such a specific topic for you given that youre not really a financial journalist. >> it a really good question. each story presented themselves t...