Dom, thank you very much for that good morning, its 8 00 a. M. At disney headquarters in burbank, california, 11 00 a. M. On wall street, and squawk alley is live good tuesday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with sara eisen and john fortt on the new york stock exchange. Scott galloway, of course, from Nyu Stern School of business is at post 9. Good morning, guys you can guess what were going to talk about at the top that is acquisition talks sending shock waves through the media world. Disney reportedly held discussions to buy most of 21st century fox, increased competition from rivals like netflix and control of hulu both considered part of the motivation for that deal professor, you first on this, and we talked about how it shows flexibility on both fox and disneys side in adapting to a netflix era, right yeah, everyones bulking up, and because when you think about it, amazon and whole foods, facebook and instagram, the greatest acquisition that didnt happen wou
Nike on a downgrade from jpmorgan after those layoffs yesterday. Apple getting serious on content hiring two big time executives from sony. Well go live to miami ahead of the president s expected announcement on cuba this afternoon. We are getting some breaking news on whole foods. Holy cow. I heard you gasp just now. This is such a game changer amazon to buy whole foods. You know yesterday was a day for kroger that was tough today will be an even tougher day. This is a game changer this is it this is what everybody thought could happen they will now dominate food within the next two years. Wow. Just yesterday we were reading a piece in texas monthly, john mackey, basically going after activists saying theyre not interested in the long term. More interested in the short term stock was halted i would say about four or five minutes ago for news pending but this this is wow. A day well remember for a long time. Yes, we will. I guess mackie had enough of them hes one tough hes a tough guy,
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Which is you go around the country and you see the market is the rates are going up 10, 15, 20, 30 and that is not what they were promised here. And i think hes gotten bipartisan support for this. To work with congress and to take executive action when necessary, to implement a Health Care System that provides more People Health care allows them to keep the doctor and plan they are signing up for and lowers cost and creates more competition. Do i think he has a mandate, sure. It is not on this issue. I think that all leaders have a mandate for American People to fix the system and make it better. Julie pace. I have two important questions. [ inaudible question ] on that instance, i know it is still developing and i would refer you back to the department of defense. I know they are currently monitoring this and i would refer you back to them on that. I think the president is clear he will work with any country that shares our interest in g defeating isis on the economic access and spur
With me, as always, jon fortt and Kayla Tausche at post 9 as the dows down about 20 points. Busy day for poll kicks and business. One week since the inauguration. The president front and center on the world stage, moving one step closer, some say, to a trade war with mexico, ramping up rhetoric this morning, as the president welcomes his first foreign leader to the white house today. Our john harwood is at the white house with all the latest. Good morning, john. Reporter good morning, carl. You know, President Trump did not back away from what happened yesterday when the mexican president canceled their visit next week. He came before the republican retreat and said we have mutually decided to put off this meeting, unless we are treated properly and with respect, there is no point to it. Today he sent out a tweet underscoring that complaint, saying that mexico has been taking advantage of us for years on securing the border and on trade, and that has to change now, in all capital lette