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john. michelle, the breaking news is that bob corker, the senator from tennessee, republican who chairs the foreign relations committee, has told the washington post he has withdrawn from consideration as donald trump s running mate. it underscores the question hanging over trump s running mate process, which is who exactly can he entice to run with him. can he get given how controversial his reputation is, can he get a young rising star in republican politics, or does he got to pick somebody like newt gingrich, the former house speaker, chris christie, the governor of new jersey, who doesn t have much of an electoral future given controversies that have weighed them down. bob corker is somebody who has been rising within the senate and in republican politics. he says the job of being the vice presidential candidate is more political than he wants. that he s more of a policy guy. not comfortable being the attack dog in the campaign. so he has taken himself out. we v ....
let s put on the fang trade. i think each of these companies specifically scott had something idiosyncratic and important an its own road map that sparked interest beyond just the last 90 days. doc, facebook crushed it. alphabet, mobile search driving. amazon, the obvious thing, plus the cloud. these are not small revenue numbers we re talking about here, judge. when looking at alphabet or google, up 25% year over year, the revenue side. this is a huge amount of revenue. this isn t like, you know, some of the stocks we talk about that, oh, it was 100 million and they beat by 1.2 million dollars. no. these are in the billions. this is like apple-esque kinds of numbers, and as people come on the air and like to say, the law of large numbers says they can t keep doing yes, they can, and yes, they did. and take a look at amazon. one important point on that, jon. we used to talk about these names, reverently, we would say, these are the companies that are going t ....
comply with new regulatory mandates than it is for a larger institution? a very small institution, we recognize there are burdens involved. we have often tried to tailor our regulations so that there is less burden and fewer rules applied to smaller institutions. there has been an increase in capital standards that apply to those institutions but most of the things we discussed today, stress test and other things, liquidity regulations apply to those institutions and tried to make many efforts. to simplify the regulatory regime and capital regime for those institutions. the number of changes negatively affect the community to offer products and services to consumers more than it has affected larger institutions? i don t know that it has affected smaller institutions more than larger institutions. i would submit that it has because to be honest i don t know how you started this. i don t know how you start business in this economic environment. don t know how peop ....
announcer: now, the director of the group right on time discuss the decline on the use of the death penalty and the potential for the supreme court to in the practice. this is from the aspen ideas festival in colorado. it is about an hour. thank you for being here. one of the greatest decisions a society makes outside of going to war is to whom apply the death penalty to. we are here to talk about the death penalty, where it is going. i can t imagine a better group of panelists. steve is the president for the center for human rights. in my mind, the leading death penalty litigant in the country and has been for a number of years. traveling throughout the country to bring these cases to fight. he had a big win in the supreme court a few weeks ago. he has been teaching at yell law school since 1993. mark does really interesting work and is making the case for a conservative case for limits on things like mandatory minimums or the over criminalization not on a defend ....
gains and we begin with earnings from microsoft which added to the string of strong results reported by other dow components. microsoft s quarter was powered by the new cloud business. and not by the product it may be guess kn windows. the ceo has shifted the focus amid the slowing pc sales. the dow component earned 69 cents a share, a full 11 cents better than estimates. revenue also topped expectation although annual revenue fell n since 2009.cal 2015. still investors liked what they saw, sending shares higher in initial after hotrading. josh lipton has more. reporter: $6.7 billion that was the big number in microsoft atest earni reported for its so-called intelligent cloud segment. kurt mctern of evercore whd tha important because this is a critical part of microsoft s strategy going forward. it was also weaker than expected in the third quarter so investors wanded to see this wanted to see this bounce back. he notes that revenue from ajer, the cloud computing pl ....