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
Todd that is Bridget Mendel are. I never heard of her before this song. We have a jampacked friday. This intense, friday morning. Jillian lets begin, the taliban claiming responsibility for the death of two green beret. Todd they resume peace talks to end the countrys longest war. Jillian Aishah Hasnie joins us with more on their incredible sacrifice. Reporter the nation morning two army special for soldiers killed during combat operations in afghanistan. Master Sergeant Lewis is a massachusetts native who has been deployed six times over his 13 year career in the army, the green beret receiving dozens of awards while serving our nation. He has been posthumously awarded a bronze star medal and purple heart. We also lost Master Sergeant jose gonzales, a native of california. His family wishing not to release his picture or anything else at this time. Both men were assigned to the seventh special forces group at the eggland air force base in california. The taliban taking responsibility
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