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>> this big acquisition, facebook acquiring whatsapp a text messaging application with 40 million users worldwide and great for international texting as chuck points out. this is the largest acquisition from facebook and latest move by zuckerberg to keep his company relevant in the ever changing social marketplace.gt.÷ whatsapp charges a flat fee of a dollar a year. book is paying $4 billion in cash and purchase 12 billion worth of its share and the deal could be valid as highu(4 as $1 million. -- billion. exhume. whatsapp has 55 employees. that ams to $43 million per employee. >> when zucker...

Contractor. thank you for being here. dee, doe, i want to start with you. the president used statistics that a woman earns $0.77 for every dollar's man earns. bill o'rielly said that is errorous and heoused the statistic that women earn $0.91 for every dollar a man makes. >> bill o'rielly is right. it is it a political ploy. and i was insulted by the president's speech. who is he to dpoif me anything. that is old and outdated and that is if you have a good work ethic. >> but the fact that women make lessment n91 percent of the women do and some don't. it should be on merit and don't put people...

Private marketplace. but, an imposition into private earnings by the feds goes directly against our capitalistic system. nevertheless, the president and the democratic party have targeted american women as a group that needs help. >> women make up half our workforce. they still make up to 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. that is wrong. and, in 2014, it's an embarrassment. women deserve equal pay for equal work. it is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a mad man episode. >> but that's not exactly the case. here are the facts. in 1963, the equal pay act was passed into...

That wasn't like all of the others, it was this moment right here. >> yet today women make up about half our workforce. but they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. that is wrong. and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. women deserve equal pay for equal work. [ applause ] >> now, it is time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a mad men episode. let's all come together, congress, the white house, gizs from wall street to main street to give every woman the opportunity she deserves, i believe when women succeed, america succeeds.

For their kids. children's issues are connected to women's issues. what's good for women in the workplace is good for men in the workplace, i was pleased to hear the president talk about when women succeed america succeeds. and i think when women succeed, children succeed. i think they are all interconnected. and the more we look at this who will wholistically, the better the country is. >> it might not surprise you to learn that moment from the state of the union was the most remarkable in terms of audience reaction, equal pay for women, maria, you went and talked to the president about befor...