Good morning everybody. Here are watching market on Bloomberg Television. We are not going to waste time. We have a big gap this morning. We will take you to the top level business stories of the morning. Shares of walmart are rising. For the first time in almost two years store sales rose in the United States. It was not by much, just 1. 5 . That the ceo Doug Macmillan is making big promise in his turnaround plan. It is a match made in marketing heaven. Shrek and the transformers. The toymaker is in talks to buy dreamworks animation. Socks stream work stream work dreamworks stocks soaring. It is Warren Buffetts power play again. Buyingre hathaway is proctor and gambles duracell battery business. 4. 7shire will turnover billion dollars in shares. That is high energy. The house votes on the controversy over he stone pipeline. An impact on nets months Senate Runoff election in louisiana. Billlandrieu how end cassidy want keystone approved. Her rover want to show independence through Demo
Towards an at stake was the terms of doing business moving forward. They wanted the power to set prices and amazon recoiled to be deprived of the deep discounts. While the negotiations went on behind closed doors authors and readers saw the new darker side of the amazon them as they were listed as an available and then they knew delivery betake weeks. Rigo that recommendation people to suggest alternatives those have responded with condemnation to amazon as the bully. And then jeff jesus was liked vladimir putin. And they should reconsider their relationship with amazon and the digital marketplace. Even wall street wavered with longstanding support of the amazon stock as a Share Price Fell 20 of the 52 week high. Now just 10 days ago to set its own prices but that it encourages the publisher to deliver lower prices. Said both have declared victory and have gone home. Said publishers and authors and readers may not be prepared to let them go but the National Book awards last week chasti
Cspan the book is called escape from camp 14. Thank you very much. Guest thank you. [applause] good morning everyone who is watching via technology. This morning the panel will be fascinating and youll have a great time. And not used to having this many people show up without a court order. [laughter] so i am certain this will be fabulous. The discussion is teeeleven our moderator is pamela enjoining her our authors walter and francine and pamela. [applause] ms. Paul is editor of the New York Times book review and of the popular interview column by the book. Her new book by the book writers on literature and the literary life from the New York Times book review brings together 65 of the most intriguing and fascinating exchanges over time. She is joined by ian who is the author of six novels as well as the coowner of the bookstore. [applause] her newest book this is the story of a happy marriage and before the publication of her first novel to seventeen magazine. Next his latest is wher
Prescription drugs from illegal Online Pharmacies. A former under cover special agent for the dea joins me now. Robert mazer, is the author of, the infiltrator, a memoir about his life undercover with drug lord Pablo Escobars colombian cartel. We can not show his face for his own protection but he is joining us now from florida. Robert, welcome to the show. Great to have you here. Explain to our viewers a little bit about your career as under cover agent. Sure. I was a federal agent for 2 years. For the greatest portion of that i worked on attacking and identifying commandandcontrol of the colombian cartels and their money launderers. For the all but five years i did that in traditional sense. With search warrants and informants and those types of resources. But, for five years i volunteered to become a longterm under cover agent and to infiltrate the Money Laundering systems of the cartel. So i got the opportunity to do that. And to see how the cartels run firsthand basis. I wound up
Out. How they were spotted and pulled to safety. And the 12yearold who nailed the National Anthem. Belting out a flawless rendition before the lions and bears game. The child sensation stunning the crowd. A performance we can all be thankful for. And home of the brave and good morning, america. Happy black friday, everyone. We hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving. And its great to have dan here and paula and rob and t. J. Rob and i shared a thanksgiving meal at the office yesterday. It was delicious. Everybody get turkey . I ate so much, i actually am having trouble fitting into my pants today. Do they make man spanx . They do, actually. They do make those. You said that with a lot of authority. Ive done a story on it before. Fair enough. Try the elastic, dan. Move on from man spanx to black friday. A lot of people shopping today, waiting all night. But we have people waiting since midnight to see r5. The redhot band is live with us here this morning. But speaking of red hot, get to t