Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special edition of squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick and this morning i am in a suburb of omaha ham, nebraska, called la vista. Joe kernen is back at cnbc headquarters on the east coast. Our special guest this morning is Berkshire Hathaways Warren Buffett. Weve been soliciting your questions for mr. Bust over the last several days and as always, he he didnt disappoint. You have emailed, tweeted, facebooked and shared your thoughts on linkedin. Before we get to that, joe is going to give us a quick rundown of the mornings top headlines. Hey, beck. I know the sequester is hitting everybody hard, but this is your new set up there with the boxes and the usually we can splurge a little bit more. This is affecting everyone, i think. This it is. But this was a purchase. Berkshire never gave any numbers on this, but it was reported that this was a purchase of about 500 million. Whoa. But it was what we twauts the companys most recent acquisition. He s
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