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pitch as it s expected to field acquisition offers this week. and unexpected fireworks from the vice presidential debate last night. we ll look at the highlights and the impact on the campaign. amazon hitting another all-time high yesterday. announcing prime reading, which unlocks thousands of kindle books for free. what that means for the industry. but first up, twitter shares rising in the premarket amid some increasing talk about a possible sale of the company. comes more than a week after david broke the news that twitter has received expressions of interest from a number of tech companies that are considering whether to make a bid for the social media company. little more color being flushed out by some regarding splits on the board between av and dorsey, the role noda s had in sort of driving morale. yeah, interesting story from bloomberg. our reporting sort of is where it was, you know, perhaps it is this week as i last reported. there was a formalization ....
to do business with iraq.d it i this is relevant, he was pushing the sanctions and lifting the sanctions when he is messes why we didn t think he should have a ceo of halliburton. they pay millions of dollars in fines for providing false information on w those. they did business with libya and iran, two sworn enemies of the united states. they are now under investigation for having bribed foreign officials duringl that period of time, not only that, they have gotten seven and have billion-dollar no-bid contract in iraq and instead of part of their money being withheld which is the way it is normally done, they continue to get their money. mr. vice president? i like to respond but it s going to take within 30 seconds well that s all you ve got. well the reason they keep mentioning halliburton s because because they re trying to throw up a smokescreen. they know the charges are false and they know that if you go for example to fact checks.com, you can get the spe ....
on sunday s debate. taylor: hillary clinton and donald trump were in the ring again at washington university in st. louis for the second presidential debate of 2016, and the gloves came off almost immediately. trump reeling from last week s release from a 2005 tape in which the republican nominee discussed women in degrading terms. clinton sto make bill 1990 s scandals part of the conversation. he also discussed hillary clinton s use of an e-mail server while secretary of state. mr. trump: people, their lives have been destroyed for doing 1/5 of what you have done, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. mrs. clinton: everything he just said is absolutely false, but i am not surprised. it is awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. mr. trump: because you would be in jail. moderator: secretary clinton? debate,prior to the trump appeared with a trio of women who previously accused bill clinton of sexual mi ....
attacks between donald trump and hillary clinton. you bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. trump: this was locker room talk. im not proud of it. i apologized to my family and to the american people. mrs. clinton: it is not only about it is not only these questions that he has also targeted immigrants, african-americans, latinos, people with disabilities, p.o.w. s, muslims, and so many others. so this is who donald trump is. i think it is very important for us to make clear to our children that our country really is great because we are good. a divided we have nation because of people like her. believe me, she has tremendous hate in her heart. when she said deplorables, she meant it. when she said they are irredeemable, to me that might have been even worse. i did not think i would say this, but i am going to say it but i hate to say it. if i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because ther ....
welcome to squawk on the street. i m carl quintanilla with david faber, sarah eisen, mike santoli at the new york stock exchange. we re going to talk about the the debate. futures up ahead of a busy week. german expect data, bond market is closed for columbus day. a contentious debate in st. louis last night, the tone set when both candidates entered the stage and did not engage in the traditional handshake. after that a focus on trump s hot mike remarks in 05 about women that has created turmoil within the gop. this was locker room talk. i m not proud of it. i apologize to my family. i apologize to the american people. certainly i m not proud of it. have you ever done those things? women have respect for me, and i will tell you, no, i have not. what we all saw and heard on friday was donald talking about women, what he thinks about women, what he does to women. and he has said that the video doesn t represent who he is. but i think it s clear to anyone who h ....