A piece over the weekend diving into the tech giants Cloud Computing arm saying its quote snuffing out the competition. Joining us now to discuss with us on set. Happy monday. Good to have you. The central question i think here is when is this sort of behavior selling your house brand not okay Grocery Stores do it. Best buy does it. You know, they got best buy internal brand tvs and what not. Is amazon so powerful and got good market share that this becomes kind of a soul crushing and anticompetitive activity. This is one of the Biggest Companies in america inside one of the Biggest Companies in america. If you spun it off it would be massive within amazon which has been accused of this kind of thing around retail, around all kinds of services it offers, its not a great look for it. Actually, this company even though google and others have gotten into the business, it still dominates and keeps it rating feature after feature after feature. If youre a Small Software player, youve got to
Its definite. But, and this is a big but, you know what . I think its time that we just shade things i think we should take a little off the table. Why do i say that . Its not just because when i walk around downtown manhattan, im hearing more hey, make me some money cramer catcalls than i am booyah or i love the show sho sho shout outs its all the issues that have dogged the market suddenly seem to have gone away. So im feel like we got to kind of pan gloss moment here pangloss frankly, it means that were in a position let me just say the pangloss sellers, thats not what im talking about, the great vineyard in sonoma i like that. Were not talking about delicious cabernet here. Were talking about voltaires pangloss all is for the best isnt the best of all possible worlds pangloss whenever we start getting that vibe, it makes me want to sell something, because the best of all possible worlds nevertheless first of all, lets talk about whats going on right now, right now because there are
You have to get peoples attention when youre selling a product that melts so i always burst through the gate with a robust war cry, whos next for ice cream . I bring this up because when President Trump unilaterally decided to hit mexico with a big tariff for ten days, make them close the border, all i could think was, whos next for ice cream . Thats why the market got pole axed today whos next for punishment with the dow plunging, s p plummeting, and the nasdaq nose divi diving whos next for tariffs as someone whos generally been supportive of the president s hard line position against china, i feel like i need to draw a line in the sand here if you want a Strong Economy and higher stock prices which is what i favor the last thing you need is a president who bursts through twitter saying, whos next for punishment. I think theres a time and a place for tariffs. Ive been critical of our nations trade policy for ages, for all the time ive been on cnbc, for all these years, our old policy
I am in for jose diazbalart in jose diazbalart reports. Back here at home, just four days until the South Carolina primary. Can nikki haley pull off an update in her home state, or will it prove donald trump has the republican nomination locked up . A historic decision in alabama. The top court, frozen embryos are people and you can be liable for destroying them, and what it means for one of the most antiabortion states. And then we will talk about the merger in the credit card industry. Good to see you today. We will begin this hour with new developments out of russia. A new emotional appeal today from the mother of navalny. She sent the message to Vladimir Putin demanding he releases her sons body so she can bury him humanely. Ly [ speaking in universal language ] the kremlin spokesman responding to navalnys wife, and the kremlin saying her claims are unfounded. We have two new developments showing that a duel american and Russian National who was a los angeles resident was detained
I am in for jose diazbalart in jose diazbalart reports. Back here at home, just four days until the South Carolina primary. Can nikki haley pull off an update in her home state, or will it prove donald trump has the republican nomination locked up . A historic decision in alabama. The top court, frozen embryos are people and you can be liable for destroying them, and what it means for one of the most antiabortion states. And then we will talk about the merger in the credit card industry. Good to see you today. We will begin this hour with new developments out of russia. A new emotional appeal today from the mother of navalny. She sent the message to Vladimir Putin demanding he releases her sons body so she can bury him humanely. Ly [ speaking in universal language ] the kremlin spokesman responding to navalnys wife, and the kremlin saying her claims are unfounded. We have two new developments showing that a duel american and Russian National who was a los angeles resident was detained