Ukrainian police crash proiranian demonstrators. We look at the catalyst behind the chaos. All that and more coming up. First, lets get the market. A mixed market with the dow just barely in market territory. The s p is up a quarter of a percent. A little bit of a rebound in the nasdaq up 7 10 of one percent. Up 25 points right now. Want to get to the big three. Stocks and watches as we had to the close. Olivia stearns is watching them for us. Lets start with amazon. It has been bearing the brunt of the selloff in the past couple of days. Facebook google also up high today. Investors are buying back into amazon. Amazon still has a price to earnings ratio about 578. A different story in biotech. Biotech is still down today. Leading and lowering the shares off about three percent. Come undernuing to pressure to lower its price tag of its 84,000 new pill to treat hepatitis c. Scripps came out saying, they will not reimmerse customers reimburse customers. This is an interesting story. A little changed today. This comes after a u. S. Jury ordered eli lilly along with a japanese drug company to pay 9 million in punitive damages. Little change because lily said its agreement stops them from having to pay out any damages. Thank you. We will see you shortly. Time for the big story. Comcast on capitol hill. The Company BoughtTime Warner Cable for 5 billion. It is almost done. Hearing begins tomorrow where regulators will examine whether the merger gives comcast to much power fear the merger thed make the Company Largest u. S. Operator. At a time when cable is losing out to competition to online screaming streaming, does a monopoly really mean anything anymore . Now me michael, i know you opposed to this murder merger. How much do you think media consolidation will affect competition . It will affect competition in a number of different ways. It is not just media consolidation. Consolidation of all these Cable Networks and conservatives and distributors. You wonder about the Pricing Power they have. Spoke with the executive Vice President of comcast, david cohen. I want to share with you what he had to say about competition concerns over the deal. This particular transaction actually raises few competition concerns. The number one reason why is and conquest comcast they do not compete against each other in an area. The transaction will not lead to any reduction in Consumer Choice to any market. Do you believe it will not result in reduction . Absolutely, but that is a red herring. He is talking about Cable Service and the solution will be Internet Service. Comcast has 40 of the internet provision market. You put that together with Time Warner Cable and they will have close to 50 at a lot of people are saying they will be 60 if you look at fast rod band. That makes them almost a monopoly. A monopoly of Internet Service. Comcast and top and time warner both know and everybody in cable knows there may be five years left of cable and it will all shift to the internet. That is another conversation we will get to. Why should they be willing to go forward with the merger if this is a company that will have so much control . Is therehome harm with the control . Take a look at google fiber taking out a new internet broadband service. Think about years past, different cable companies, time warner in particular, has looked at google fiber as an experiment and thrown them out. Notthey are saying, it is an experiment but they are a real threat here and a competitor. They seem at less of a monopoly. Of course. Breaking news. There is a rumor coming out of comcast that they will get heavily into the wifi business and why . Thatse it is a lot cheaper is wired to Internet Access and also puts them in the internet business. That is the future. Respects, if that is in fact the future, it sounds like could really take hold of a big portion of america, providing americans with wifi access and are maybe we should all hell threatened by this socalled monopoly. That will be up to regulators. They will have to force the regulation of Internet Service and comcast will make a lot of concession thanks to people like michael and all the other opponents testifying tomorrow. Comcast will say we have artie given at least three or four more years of Network Neutrality under our acquisition of terms, buying nbc universal. Do not worry about anything. We have got it under control. What is the number one message you want to communicate to lawmakers . Comcast is an Important Message to keep in mind. If you have a company that controls 50 of highspeed broadband in america, anyone trying to raise funds has an additional question to answer, which is, where does comcast stand on this . Less of that lot innovation and a lot more of the same old. One question that needs to be asked on your wifi point is you could say this is chipped because comcast has become a competitor from the wireless industry. Regulators broaden that out and say, you will now compete with at t and verizon, that is something we like. An interesting issue. Who ultimately wins this . Will it be the broadband wifi whatever or will it be stream crosses your mobile phone . Qwest broadband providers because it will all be wifi and internet. You we wireless tells will have tremendous video capability and it will be cheaper and faster. Cheaper is the operative word because 2535 cheaper to serve wifi van wireless. No more big cell phone towers told on top of church steeples. It will all be in the cloud. There are major capacity issues in a World Without where all of our video is going over wireless. There are spectrum issues and things working against wireless. Ultimately, time warner comcast, this will be a deal we will look back on and say what . Mostmcast is the sophisticated and successful lobbyist ever to get into media. Are you surprised . Not at all. It will go through. By the end of the year. That is what Brian Roberts is saying. Does it mean my bill is going up . It probably does. When they were asked exclusively, with his mean prices are going down, they said no. Go upot mean prices will any slower. Even if youre talking about cost production, there is no mechanism in place. There is no upside. Prices will continue to go up but youll have fewer choices. Fewer choices. Potential upside and that is that comcast has a better service. If anyone will be arguing that, they will have more content here there is that upside. , that is true. Watch bloomberg tv online in several places, including amazon fire tv as well as your web, mobile device, and apple tv. President obama making use of his executive power, signing orders today on equal pay. Is the payday the pay gap as big as he says . Not so much. Whom ones were. The imf cuts russias growth. I will be right back. Qwest president obama is making use of executive orders. The first ends orders federal contractors sometimes used to prevent employers from discussing their play their pay. The president emphasized today when it comes to equal pay, America Needs action. Do not have to sit still. Make sure you are putting pressure on members of congress about the issue. If you are a voter, you have a daughter, you have a sister, you have a mom, i know you have a mom. This is something you should care about. Not stand still, either. Im joined now by a scholar at the American Enterprise in june and professor of economics at the university of michigan campus. Also, phil knightley. Phil, lets start with you. Tell the viewers exactly what the executive actions will do if you could just line it up or is. The white house is basically going for transparency. What they want to do with the gag order theyre putting a ban on and also a president ial directive to the Labor Department requiring federal contractors to see race and genderbased pay information theyto label to labor, are trying to shine a light on it. White house economist and officials hope thatll contractors will self correct those. If not, the Labor Department will be able to bring in enforcement action. That is what theyre going for here. A significant political arena here. Mark was the talk of the White House Briefing room today. May have frustrated jay carney, it is safe to say. That is an accomplishment. Joining us now. He is referring to this oped in the wall street journal. We were talking about some of the st. Louis fed numbers that showed the . 77 on the dollar that women are supposedly making is correct. Lly entirely when you look at the other factors, there is a 3. 5 wage gap between men and women which is still not great there it is the dollar. on you wrote the gender disparity also economically a logical. If women were paid . 77 on the dollar, a firm could dramatically cut labor also cosy replacing male employees with females. They do not ignore the opportunity because it does not exist. Women are not paid . 70 on the dollar for doing the same work as men. Is the president trying to make an issue out of something where there is not an issue . The issue here is that when the president talks about a 23 pay gap between men and women, people understand and are led to believe the entire 23 pay gap is caused by discrimination on behalf of employers and when the Target Corporation are hiring women and they pay 77,002 , economists know that is not the case. Can be explained by a lot of variables and factors besides discrimination. When there is a three or four percent pay gap and maybe that is because of discrimination, but the 23 cannot be because of discrimination. Tell us the reaction to the out today and put other economists are talking about. They did not this unit. That is the key issue here where mark hit the nail on the head. Terms of put out in undercutting the . 77 argument is something jay carney was not going to say is incorrect. What i think the most ,nteresting part mark put out the political aspect of this. It is undeniable democrats are moving into midterm elections and women are a key constituent and a need to rally their support. Pay issue is something the white house have been pushing since they have been in office. Withush is tightly ported senate democrats, Democratic Campaign committees on the senate side, and Landmarks Research comes out and starts to undercut some of the numbers they use, the white house is worse to address the political implications of what theyre putting forward. It is logical. If you are a business and you ,an get an employee so cheaply i suppose you can only have women working for you. This pastork to session. There were a lot of concerns men by womeng displaced and part of that was maybe because women were making less. What do you say to that . It is true men were disapproved disproportionally affected but that is generally because they have a disproportionate number of jobs in industries that got hit the hardest, including manufacturing and construction. That is where the disparity came in in terms of a higher Unemployment Rate for men and women and more job losses for men and women is because women tend to work in more Stable Industries like education and health care and men tend to work likere Industries Construction and manufacturing. It is an interesting issue and probably one we hear more and more about as we head into midterm. I appreciate you coming on. Up, continuing in the ukraine after fight rate out in parliament. We will talk about this situation after the break. Plus, acid, lead paint, sheet rock, just some of the ingredients found. We will take you into the 75 billion black market for fake drugs. Unrest continues to mount as ukraine sends Security Forces to deal with prorussian protesters that set fire to government buildings in the region. John kerry says russia has been chaos. Ukraine to create the russian government responded saying the crackdown on separatist risks, sparks a civil war. Washington ism the Deputy Director at the institute of advanced russian studies. Great to have you, as always. About about little what is unfolding right now. The west is really concerned fore protests may be cause to push into the ukraine. Is Vladimir Putin actually creating a contrived crisis as secretary of state kerry suggests . He may well be. Events will play out over the next few days to see if that is true. The unrest in the eastern cities is very worrying. They could be used as a pretext if they get out of hand for russia to send troops into eastern ukraine. It was an explosive situation and it is still unclear how events will transpire. Goal . What is the ultimate aspirations to restore russian to the power it once had during usr our days ussr days. There is a Political Movement he is invoking. Ae we actually going to see civil war in ukraine as Vladimir Putin tries to a cover more territory . More likely we will see a proxy were than a civil war. If there is violence in the ukraine, it will be led by russia and we will bring russians into the ukraine and find some russians. Think the citizens of ukraine. Ekingncludes the russians citizens of the ukraine looking for work. You see that because the protest themselves have been relatively small. They are not the same types of protest that occurred. What would be a great concern is that russia uses these events, the instability, to decide it will intervene into eastern ukraine. That remains a huge worry. Let me share with you some video from parliament. We saw there was quite a fight that broke out there. What is your take on this . I do not know if you can even video but you have probably heard about it. The rain in parliament breaking out in this massive brawl. Is there a lot of unrest there . There is a real tension in the ukraine. There was an accusation by beattys about the success of nationalism ukrainians. This is also a potential spark. Interim government has been very careful to control. We talk about the black market for counterfeit drugs next. About the success of nationalism ukrainians. This is also a potential spark. Interim government has been very careful to if you have ever thought about ordering drugs online, you might want to think again. Olivia stearns look at the 75 billion black market for counterfeit bills and what big pharma is doing right now to fight back. Watch this. It is the Drug Trafficking you do not hear about. More than 75 billion worth of state pharmaceuticals are sold globally each year. Eat inside these makeshift labs, lead paint and often sheet rock, some of the toxic ingredients found in counterfeit pills sold online to customers around the world. The problem is so big that pharmaceutical companies are now policing it themselves. Scientists are doing the legwork. The evidence will then be used to prosecute the purpose. Formula. Inning the incentive is to protect the 55nd, tainted by more than different products on the black market. Today, they are training me to spot the real deal. Class that is hard to tell. It is very similar to me. Everything,e find like chapstick. But the but viagra. Something inherently looks fake about it. Can you tell which is real . Documented. Step two, the physical exam. The color shifts from loot to purple. Step three, chemical analysis. Here are the viagras. This is fundamentally different. File the report. Years at the fbi, he is working for this company. Law enforcement does it on their own based on training they do. It is important for us to have patience and recognize when they identify a product that they know it is our product. We have gone through the regulatory process to make it safe and effective. Work, it is nor wonder police need outside help to keep up. Olivia stearns joins me right now. Olivia, it is a really fascinating piece. To likely is it, if you were order a drug online, that you would actually get something that is indeed counterfeit . I went myself to figure out how hard it would be. Viagra,ype in discount right over there on the desk, it is terrifying august of that comes up. You need a prescription but all over the internet, you can find plenty of sites that say you do not need a prescription. Phone andd over the on online chat with two different agents, can you promise me this is five sub brand viagra. They promised me and this has been shipped from hong kong. I got it three weeks later and an hiv drug. D for i finally got it and i sent the sample and they said to me it has a little bit of the active ingredient and only 10 and also has another active ingredient in tylenol, plus a little little starch. It is not the real deal. 10 real. It would not work the way you would think it would. Often, these things have very dangerous ingredients. That is scary. You think youre getting one thing and youre getting something else. Your body might have a pretty adverse reaction to it erie right. This is someone that looks at how big the counterfeit market is. They say 97 of Online Pharmacies out there do not meet fda standards. Concern. In addition to the threat of counterfeits, one thing i came across the doctors are really worried about is the issue of substandard generic. We all take generic pills are an 85 of medicine are they really worried about that or is that just the drug company saying we have to protect our turf here, beware of generics . Is not just Drug Companies that are worried, but doctors. The u. S. Havein supplies manufactured abroad. I spoke to an expert at the american enter Rise Institute and heres what he had to say. Klesko thats the 1980s, and most of the ingredients for drugs in the United States were either made in the u. S. Or europe. Today, 80 of the ingredients and 40 of the finished products, overseas and mostly from china. That means even u. S. Manufactured generics and brandname products have to secure prime their names were the regulator