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With georgia's political spat, georgia may think twice. the senate is reporting a tax break for delta after it stopped deals for nra members. a signal to amazon that political politicians, local politicians put scoring political points over business interests. facing consumer pressure, delta is one of a dozen companies cutting the nra ties. delta claims it wants to be neutral in the gun debate. it doesn't want to give special discounts for nra members. billionaire warren buffett says companies should be careful taking a big political opinion. he told cnbc it's ridiculous to boycott gun owners ...

Delta is the state's largest private employer, signalling to amazon that local politicians put political point scoring over business interests. delta is one of a dozen companies facing consumer pressure to cut nra ties. while consumers focus on companies, blackrock and others are re-examining their investments in gun makers. famed investor warren buffett says it's ridiculous to boycott gun stocks. >> i have not issued any edict to the two managers that run money besides me at berkshire that they can't own stock in gun manufacturers. they can own stock in gun manufacturers. >> some say you can ...

A health care provider, what is this going to cost me, what is the best value for my money? if they can bring that consumer pressure, we can force monies of americans help us fix this health care problem. that's one of the critical things were trying to achieve here. instead of using other people's money to pay for health care that you don't care what things cost, we want to harness the power of the marketplace, the part of the consumer of the patient and the doctor, to demand better services, to demand better quality, we want transparency on price, quality, so that we can bring consumers to t...

Offensive as that other kind of discriminatory speech or hate speech? >> as a gay man and a gay father, i do. >> what do you think the consequences are? you have talked online as elton john did as basically a type of boycott. what is the end game? fashion is very different than politics. in politics you say what is the goal, what is the objective? is it to further separate them from their company and create losses? or to have them further feel consumer pressure to change their public position? >> i think the objective, you know, is really just to have the conversation. how dare you say my fami...

Opinions. he was fired. dolce and gabbana are dolce and gabbana gabbana, they're not going to get fired. but hopefully regular consumers will not choose to support their homophobia and choose to not support them disregarding families, regardless of how the families came to be. >> you make that comparison. do you think this is as offensive as that other kine of discriminatory speech or hate speech? >> as a gay man and a gay father, i do. >> what do you think the consequences are? you have talked online as elton john did as basically a type of boycott. what is the end game? fashion is very diffe...