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ho, ho, hey, hey, obamacare is here to stay. >> if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. >> the law that brought health care to millions of americans has been struck down by a u.s. judge. >> it's troubling for 130 million americans with pre-existing conditions. >> liberty, yes, obamacare, no. >> the first order of business is to repeal and replace obamacare. >> people are hurting. inaction is not an option. this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and
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christi paul. >> good saturday morning to you. we're starting with this dramatic ruling that could affect the future of health care coverage for millions of americans. a federal judge in texas has struck down obamacare. >> he parties th-- he parties tt the key part of the law is unconstitutional. according to his ruling, that includes the rest of the law that he says cannot stand without the mandate. so the entire affordable care act itself must fall. >> attorneys general in several states are already preparing appeals while others are cheering this decision along with the white house. there is happening on the same day as the obamacare nears signup deadline, ending at midnight in most states. >> an important point here. the judge did not block the law. what does that mean for you? it means that you can still sign up. more than four million people have already done so this year. now the future of where it goes is what's uncertain. >> what just happened now is not going to be the last step, but
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it's a troubling first judicial step. it's troubling130 million americans with pre-existing conditions. it's disturbing to 12 million people who are on obamacare as of 2018. >> you'll remember that obamacare was upheld by the supreme court. that was in 2012. >> we're going to talk about why this ruling's different from that one in a minute. first, we want to start with reaction to the ruling from the white house. sara westwood joining us live. what are you hearing there? >> reporter: good morning. the white house is taking a victory lap after the judge's ruling invalidating basically all of obamacare. the president saying that he's been claiming all along that obamacare was unconstitutional, tweeting last night, as i predicted all along, obamacare has been struck down as an unconstitutional disaster. now congress must pass a strong law that provides great health care and protects pre-existing
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conditions. mitch and nancy, get it done. referring to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and soon-to-be the likely house speaker nancy pelosi. now pelosi responded claiming that the ruling will be immediately appealed and that this is a step back for health care. she said, while the absurd ruling will be immediately repealed, republicans are fully responsible for this cruel decision and for the fear they have struck into millions of families across america who are now in danger of losing their health coverage. when house democrats take the gavel the house of representatives will move swiftly to intervene in the appeals process to upholding the lifesaving protections for people with pre-existing conditions and reject republicans' efforts to destroy the affordable care act. as you mentioned, this was a case that was brought forward by nearly two dozen republican state attorneys generals and governors seeking to base their case on changes to the individual mandate that were included in the 2017 tax bill.
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now the trump administration wasn't directly involved in the case, but as far back as june they said that they were not going to defend parts of obamacare in court. and the president said as far back as last year that republicans were content to let the affordable care act fail and then hopefully the failure of the health care markets and the medicaid expansion would push democrats to the negotiating table as they were trying in what was ultimately an unsuccessful attempt to repeal obamacare legislatively. now of course the next steps appear unclear because, again, that appeal is coming to california. democratic state attorney general is prepared to appeal the ruling, and it stands today. but the white house certainly counting this as a victory in their long quest to end obamacare. >> of course the question is, what is next? sarah westwood setting the table for us there at the white house. thank you very much. it's important to remember why the affordable care act is such landmark legislation and
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where it launched this fight -- and why it launched this fight that obviously is continuing into this morning. it changed the game for insurance providers. they could no longer reject applicants who had prior health conditions or give them high-priced plans with limited coverage. it allowed millions of imperfect health records to get insurance. but it also pushed up premiums for the young people, for those who are healthy. and it added a tax penalty if you did not have health care. that is what was zeroed out this year by congress and provided the opening for the ruling we're talking about this morning. so many questions raised by this ruling. let's get answers with legal analyst joey jackson and daniel littman, political reporter and author of "the politico playbook." welcome back. joey, let me start with you. explain for us how judge o'connor in texas can say that the individual mandate is unconstitutional, the rest of the law is invalid but nothing changes in the short term.
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>> so good morning to you, victor. something very important to understand -- remember the law, let's take a quick walk back. in 2010 the laws passed, affordable care act, you might remember. then in 2012, based upon challenges, we had a supreme court decision which upheld the law. so the critical question is on what basis did they declare the law unconstitutional when was assailed and attacked by republicans as being unconstitutional. there were two critical issues that need to be explained. one, the first issue was should the law be sustainable under something called the interstate commerce clause. that is that congress has the power it regulate interstate. they are the federal government. the supreme court said no. on that basis, you can't regulate inactivity. that is the fact that you're imposing an individual mandate, right, you're forcing people to get insurance. you're not going to regulate inactivity unconstitutional. however, the law was upheld on the basis that the congress has the power to tax. and as a result of that, you can tax people, congress does that
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all the time, right, so as a result of that the law was declared constitutional on that basis. now moving forward, last piece, that's this -- so how this different? it's different inasmuch as what the republicans did is they defunded it. what they said was that we're going to declare the tax as zero. if the tax is zero, congress is no longer tax iing. if congress is no longer taxing, how can you have the law declared constitutional on tax grounds when congress is not imposing a tax? this judge said that on that basis, the law will be deemed unconstitutional since the law is tethered to the tax. and to the extent that there is no tax, it's not tethered to that, therefore it's not constitutional. but we're not going to do anything right away. that's where we are now. i suspect there will be appeals. it's the fifth circuit, and it will go all the way to that place we call the united states supreme court. >> that's where i want to go with you next. first let me get daniel in here. that's the legal element. let's talk about the political. the most recent public polling
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on the affordable care act, also known as obamacare, shows it's more popular than ever. that's from fox news before the election, 54% favorable, 43% unfavorable. what does this mean for the white house that's cheering this decision? the republican party that's tried to repeal it with those numbers as context? >> yeah, those numbers have stayed steady or even increased as americans with pre-existing conditions have gotten coverage and have not been blocked anymore from getting coverage. when it's a very personal issue. so when you see your friends or family members get denied health care because they have an illness, that really strikes at your heart of your livelihood. so that's one reason why it's so popular. but americans haven't always understood that that is a big part of obamacare. they have wanted to keep the pre-existing conditions part without actually the whole law.
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for the white house, that means that the political headwinds are in, you know, against them. and democrats were very successful in running in defense of the law a month and a half ago. so this judge basically says americans, what they thought of obamacare and helping democratic candidates win who ran on it, that doesn't matter, let's just look at the strict legal definition. >> yeah. joey, you brought up the supreme court here. what does -- scalia was on the court, kennedy was on the court. you've now got gore su-- gorsuc and kavanaugh. what does the make-up portend for the law as it approaches the supreme court, or as everyone expects it will go thereing? >> i believe it will. remember, to put in perspective, this is one federal district court judge in the fifth circuit. it's not uncommon for there to
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be splits, disagreements between judges, not everyone agrees. to the core question, that split, we know this is, we should say, a republican judge. and again, i know the issue, there's no republican judges, no democratic judges. to be clear, there are ideologies. and with -- >> conservatives. >> with regard to the judge's idealogy, he's conservative, exactly, appointed by george w. bush. what will end up happening is as a result of the challenges, it will end its way to the conservative, you said it, court, which is the supreme court of the united states. and that will have an effect upon a host of issues. and we know that this bill, right, or i should say the law that was passed savaged, right, by the republicans -- in fact, the plaintiffs who brought forth the lawsuit that we're speaking about this morning, 20 different republican attorneys general from various states. when it gets to the united states supreme court, based upon the conservative bent of the court it may have some problems. >> daniel, to you and what the democrats will do. nancy pelosi says that democrats will intervene as they get
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control of the house. what are their options here? >> they don't have that many good options. although trump said chuck and nancy, mitch and nancy, get it done, pelosi doesn't want to the give in and say the judge's ruling is going to stand. democrats hope that john roberts will continue to protect the law. and even people who have -- legal experts who challenged the law in the past, they were reacting and said that john roberts would not look favorably on this judge's ruling because it kind of said that what he decided was completely wrong. and so i can expect democrats in the house to continue passing laws to protect obamacare, but with the republican senate it doesn't matter that much because mcconnell is not going to go through with it. but it it's going to be a potent talking point, and democrats can point to what i do in the house and say, well, we're not just
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doing investigations of the trump administration. we are helping people's health care, as well. >> the president tweeted out, mitch and nancy, get it done. republicans couldn't do it when it was mitch and paul trying to get it done. we'll see how productive they'll be now. quickly to you, joey, on this element -- sever ability. the judge said in this case that the individual mandate was unconstitutional but because he could not sever just that part from the larger law, that he had to deem the entire law invalid. the democratic attorneys general who argued against the case, the lawsuit, said that it could have been severed. where are you on that point, and where do you expect democrats will be as they try to preserve the rest of the aca, independent of the individual mandate moving forward? >> that's a bombshell question, victor. and an essential one. the question of severability is and what this judge answered was can you separate, that is take
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out one portion of the law, but yet allow the law in its entirety to be declared valid. this judge said no. there's an argument to be made that that's not the case. understand with what i started off at the beginning. to the extent that the supreme court said that you can have this affordable care act because what you're doing with the individual mandate is you're mandating people get insurance or else their tax. what the supreme court did was made it one and a whole, saying that because a tax is tethered to the law, the congress is exercising its proper ability and, therefore, it's constitutional. i think the severability is where the fight will ensure. i think there's a good argument as to it being severable and the law remaining constitutional. the problem you'll have is the question you asked as it relates to the supreme court. very conservative. and as we know, you know what, lawyers will disagree, and lawyers' reasonable minds can disagree depending upon your
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idealogy. we know what the idealogy of the supreme court is now. i think as it relates to this law, republicans hate it, democrats think it to be essential. and we've already talked about and daniel has in terms of the impact in the midterms and what the democrats have done quite successfully in arguing that the law is important and affects so many americans. >> joey jackson, thank you very much for the analysis and explaining this as it came out late in the evening. daniel littman, stay with us. we've got more to talk to you about. >> thank you. i know a lot of you are think, well, i signed up for this, what does it mean for me? hopefully got answers there. for those of you considering it, there are thousands across the country who are still signing up for obamacare, at least 4.1 million people have already done so. they've selected their plans for 2019. new lereleased -- newly released federal numbers shows the number of first-time applicants down nearly 18%. those returning down less than 6%. a lot of factors could explain the drop in signups here.
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the trump administration cut the enrollment period in half, slashed the advertising budget by 90%. also they've made it easier to buy cheaper alternatives. and there's no longer the fine for, of course, not having insurance. >> we'll talk more about what this means and what's expected from this ruling from this judge in texas throughout the morning. let's talk about something else. this week of -- let's call them what they were -- rejections. president trump has a chief of staff. at least on an acting basis. how budget director mick mulvaney ended up getting the job that it seemed no one wanted. and a china correction has investors worried about a global slowdown. and that the president's trade war could be hurting your wallet.
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>> reporter: the special counsel is pushing back at michael flynn's lawyer's assertion that the former national security adviser wasn't appropriately warned about the repercussions of lying to the fbi. in this new filing, mueller's team says flynn chose to lie weeks before the fbi interviewed him by claiming he did not discuss sanctions with the russian ambassador. now, mueller's team made the case that his false statements were, quote, voluntary and intentional, and noted that the fbi gave him multiple opportunities in the interview to correct his false statements, and he only did so once the fbi used the exact language that he had used with kisliak from the phone call. while the fbi didn't think that flynn was being intentionally misleading, they said he shouldn't have to be warned about it. and he told then director mccabe
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what was said in his conversation. it's unclear why flynn would continue to make false statements in the interview if he thought they did know the truth. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> thank you. president trump is already wrapping up the end of his second year in office, and there are more than a half dozen investigations. we don't know how many because some may not be open or available to the public. >> that theis is what we know - donald trump foundation, the trump campaign, the trump inauguration, the trump transition, and the trump administration. all under investigation. and now cnn has learned special counsel robert mueller still wants to speak in person with president trump about obstruction of justice. his lawyers, however, adaman that that cannot happen.
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trump's attorney rudolph giuliani says they are against it because they don't trust mueller. the president announced last night on twitter, milk muck mul will become acting chief of staff at the end of the year. >> he will not resign from the office of management and budget. his appointment puts an end to several days of confusion after the president's top pick turned down the job. >> reporter: president trump announced on twitter late friday night that mick mulvaney, the white house budget director, will become the acting chief of staff when john kelly, currently the chief of staff, ends at the end of the year nampt word "acting" came as a surprise to many in the white house since that was the word that led to the failure and breakdown in negotiations over nick ayers, vice president mike pence's chief of staff, becoming john kelly's replacement and becoming the chief of staff here in the west wing. president trump told nick ayers he wanted a two-year commitment and didn't want someone to be the acting chief of staff. yet now he has got an acting
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chief of staff. however, all of this comes down to timing. on friday president trump was discussing the possible government shutdown next week, and so was the senior staff throughout the day. and mick mulvaney, budget director, came to the white house to sit down with the president, go over what would happen during the shutdown, and discuss it. he walked out with the top job. now it's a question of how long mick mulvaney is going to be in this position. this position is coming with quite a list of challenges, as we are seeing the number of investigations surrounding president trump and aspects of not only his political but his personal life start to mount up. that is a job that mick mulvaney will take over at the beginning of the year. cnn, the white house. >> thank you very much. like many republicans, the president's new acting chief of staff didn't necessarily have kind words for him before the 2016 election. overnight video surfaced of
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mulvaney taken a week before election day in 2016. in it, mulvaney explains why he reluctantly was supporting now-president trump. take a listen. >> yes, i'm supporting donald trump. i am doing so as enthusiastically as i can even though i think he's a terrible human being. but the choice on the other side is just as bad. >> we reached out for a response from the white house. we want to get back to daniel littman, political reporter and author of "politico playbook." he says he's a terrible human being. how does a man who think the president is a terrible human being serve said human being? >> a great question. he is emblematic of a number of republicans, basically the entire party that have shifted from being anti-trump early on in the process and during the 2016 campaign to getting co-opted to become the party of
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trump. and so you look at rick perry and kellyanne conway, and they've both said criticalal things about the president -- critical things about the president. you talk about when they were storm watching the agencies in the white house -- stacking up the agencies in the white house, they looked at did they favor anything that was suspect. and if you did any of that, then you were out if you were a lower level staffer. i guess that is not applying to the senior ones. >> okay. i want to ask you about the hierarchy here. you had the vice president's chief of staff, nick ayers, first choice, who declined the position. republican congressman mark meadows, chris christie, asking to be out of the consideration here. how unusual is it for this many people to say i don't want to be in the white house?
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>> they look at reince priebus and john kelly and the tough job in the white house. how they were underfined by the president -- undermined by the president on a consistent basis, and you think why would i want to do this. even though it's a prestigious job, it's -- under trump he is his own chief of staff. he doesn't need someone to run around and do the work of the actual chief of staff. and john kelly was not able to stop trump from tweeting things that were -- that led to countless firestorms. and so people who are saying they think to themselves that is not the road i want. and so that's one reason that mick mulvaney is acting chief of staff. i think that he would rather stay as omb director or wants the commerce department, that's what everyone says in washington if wilbur ross leaves. >> well, i have -- i have literally five seconds. i want to ask this -- he is still going to be the director
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of the omb. is there clarity as to whether he's being paid for both positions? >> we don't know yet. the takeover of the day-to-day operations. yeah, that's how we see it. >> all right. daniel, appreciate it so much. thank you. >> thanks. we've got more on the breaking news this morning. a federal judge strikes down the affordable care act. and millions of americans unclear on the future of their health care coverage. what makes this simple salad
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millions of americans are waking up this morning with the future. their limbo. last night a federal judge struck down the affordable care act also known as obamacare. that judge ruled the aca's individual mandate is unconstitutional. >> that mandate required all individuals to have insurance and would fine those who did not. former u.s. attorney david katz explains it like this -- >> the argument goes like this -- the supreme court ruled 5-4 that the aca was constitutional. five justices were willing to say including chief justice roberts that it was okay as a tax. that's the individual mandate was a tax. if you didn't buy the insurance, you had to pay a tax, and that was within the taxing power of
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the united states federal government. as of next year, there is no more individual mandate. that was what the republicans put in the new aca. >> this doesn't mean you cannot still sign up for obamacare. the law is still in effects we want to make sure that that's known. this morning marks the final day to enroll in the plan in order to be covered for 2019. you have to sign up today by 11:59 tonight. >> okay. president obama campaigned on reforming health care, of course, in america in 2010. the affordable care act was signed into law. it is widely seen really as his signature policy issue. >> president trump ran on repealing and replacing that law. his strongest effort was shut down by senators, specifically john mccain, in 2017. it was the thumbs down that you saw there. here's a brief history of obamacare. >> if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. [ applause ]
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if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, period. >> the yeas are 220, the nays are 211. the bill is passed. [ applause ] >> today after almost a century of trying, today after over a year of debate, today after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the united states of america. >> liberty, yes, obamacare, no. liberty, yes, obamacare, no! >> hey, hey, obamacare is here to stay! ho, ho, hey, hey, obamacare is here to stay! >> the first order of business is to repeal and replace obamacare. >> we came close but did not get that consensus. that's why i thought the wise thing to do is not proceed with
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has now fallen on to my shoulders, and as i also state, that i will spend the rest of my life in order to fix the mistake that i made. >> that was the president's former personal attorney and fixer michael cohen. you'll remember this week he was sentenced to three years in prison. he said he'd been living in a personal and mental incarceration under president trump and that he's looking forward to getting his freedom back. >> fci officeviltisville is a f once named one of america's cushiest prisons. it is the facility that the judge in this case is recommending. we understand there are on the menu rib steak, smoked oysters. former deputy warren of the new york city of correction ed gavin with us to explain what life will be like for michael cohen behind bars. thank you very much for being with us. we appreciate it. help us understand what life day
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in and day out, daily life, would be like for him if he does go to otisville. >> obviously otisville is a minimum security, a minimum-security prison camp. at that camp, i believe the census, the population, is about 110 inmates. so it's like camp cupcake, not like righters or attica. -- rikers or attica. it's a super sweet place. he's going to do well there. i know also it casters to a lot of -- caters to a lot of jewish inmate and caters to the jewish faith. that will be good for him because i know he practices religion. he'll be able to take part in exercising his religious beliefs. it's not like a typical state prison environment. he's not going to have to worry about sexual assault, violence, getting stabbed or slashed. you know, it's a nice place to be. i mean, he's arguably the most
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high-price, white-collar, nonviolent felony ofender that's going to enter the federal bureau of prisons. they'll have to keep a close eye on him. he was the president's attorney. i believe he's still going to be cooperating with team usa. so i don't even think they're going to -- me personally, i don't think they'll put him in federal prison. i think they're going to do with him like they did with john dean in the watergate days, have the u.s. marshals take him to -- you know, like a safe house and keep him there. so he can cooperate. i don't think they want to have him co-mingled with other prisoners, even if they're minimum-security prisoners. you don't want to have these guys talking to him and then word getting out that, you know, these inmates are talking to him, and things can get mucked up. i think they're going to probably not even put him in prison, my opinion. >> i have to say, this is the first time i've heard anybody describe a federal facility, prison, as super sweet. so that's a first for this show.
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and that i've heard. let me also ask you about the choice of otisville. there's some analysts who believe that as you suggested here, as he continues to cooperate, that they chose a facility in new york so that it would be easy to get him back and forth. do you think that specifically was why they chose if not otisville specifically but in -- so close to new york city. >> who he's cooperating with. if he's cooperating with the feds in the southern district, that would make sense. if he's cooperating in the d.c. area, i would think they would want him in maryland, like cumberland. i don't know. i don't think they're going to want to co-mingle him. i think he's going to be the mvp to team usa. they're going to want too keep him happy. they're going to want to have him cooperate. i mean, you know, they want to line him one david pecker and alan weiselberg. and they want a good witness. he's really when you think about
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it, he's really a -- what's the word i want to say? >> if he is going to be taken care of, is that it? i'm wondering at the end of the day, who makes the decision? this is a suggestion by the judge, but that isn't the end all, be all. who makes the decision as to where he'll end up? >> the judge can make the recommendation. but the director of the federal bureau of prisons are going -- director of the federal bureau of prisons is going to make that decision in all likelihood. >> such hear it bei-- thank you for being with us. >> thank you. a roller coaster week on wall street. if you've been watching your funds, i don't need to tell you that, right? it ends with a big dip, though. why does this matter? what should you know? we'll talk about that. stay close. th, or one that's good for my teeth? now i don't have to choose. from crest 3d white, the whitening therapy collection with new spearmint and peppermint oil. it gently whitens, plus it has a fortifying formula to protect your enamel.
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a new report says johnson & johnson hid a damning fact for decades. its bestselling baby powder contained cancer-causing asbestos. >> scientists and others at johnson & johnson johnson and wales university undertook a massive effort to mask the problem and keep you and the government in the dark. courts compelled the company to disclose the evidence. we're talking about thousands of pages of internal memos and reports in response to a class-action lawsuit. investors moved quickly to shed the stock on friday, wiping out close to $40 billion in johnson & johnson's market value. $40 billion. >> yeah. the company's tumble was part of a wild ride. you saw it from wall street this week. it ended with the dramatic sell-off yesterday. the big question heading into the holidays is, is the market's mood a sign of recession around the corner? >> here's alison kosik with
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more. >> reporter: good morning. another week of volatile trading, the new normal on wall street. s&p 500 is on track for its worst quarter since 2011. a bank of america-merrill lynch report shows investors polled a record $39 billion from global equities over the past week. that includes $28 billion that came out of u.s. stocks which is the second high eest on record. the biggest concern -- the unresolved situation between the u.s. and china and the mixed messages coming out of the white house. >> to me the most significant thing is that i think the incoherent trade policies that's coming out of the white house is causing a little anxiety from the institutional trader and the retail trader. if you're buying stock on the fundamentals, if the portfolio managers are buying stocks for the right reasons and you can turn around and a headline can dislocate your position, then
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you're going to be anxious. >> reporter: then the domino effect of how tariffs are affecting the second biggest economy. china reported weak economic reports that deepened worries about how tariffs are hurt iing growth, reinforcing fears that economies around the world are slowing down, the other reason for the volatility that's been plaguing the markets. >> i'm not in the camp to say the u.s. is tipping over. if you followed the data and followed those distinct data points that we get every week and take a look at that, something is clearly happening of a slowdown. not enough to alarm me at this point in time. but the other problem that people have with the u.s. market now is that if we follow the trail of breadcrumbs on the economic data points and the feds will raise rates next week which the market is expecting, do we get to the point where the market says we've got a policy mistake. >> the federal reserve on
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wednesday is expected to hike interest rates. when fed chief jay powell holds his press conference, investors will be listening closely to what he says about what the fed will do in 2019. back to you. >> thank you very much. you gave me my christmas gift this morning, it came in a burlap bag. i saw it and thought, she gave me coal for christmas? have i been that bad? it wasn't. it was actually something great. it was this nice ugg throw, and -- inflatable mattress for my office for when i want to take a nap. >> we work hard here. i promise we do. >> very long hours. i didn't get coal but one nba star will get coal. >> reporter: russell westbrook goes hard all the time. maybe he was a little naughty this time when push came to shove. russ never backs down, even with santa making the rounds and maybe getting inflatable mattresses for people, too.
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you know, i don't know what to say. because this is what the prompter says -- there was a one-sided shoving match at the end of the thunder-nuggets game. victor says, if it's one sided -- >> is it a match? >> and you are right. >> it's a guy shoving another guy. and russell westbrook was at the center of this. vi vince, the "bleacher report"? >> yeah, i guess it's a match by definition. i love russ because he makes a slow night a lot of fun. >> all right. >> here's why -- russell westbrook, not what you would call the coolest customer in the room. 110, 1 hur 11 110% 100% of the time. he was triggered. westbrook and the thunder down nine. he's shoved, and westbrook shoves back with more emphasis.
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whistles blow, the crowd forms, everybody cools off. westbrook and murray were given technical fouls. afterward, russ, what took plac place? >> in high way. >> did he say anything? >> i don't know. don't really matter. >> he was in my way. rough shooting night. five of 15 from the field. the nuggets won the 19th of the season. the nba will not let steph curry live down the lunar-cy. there was a clip of the moon landing on the big screen. he and his teammates got a kick out of it. this week curry seemed to wonder whether humans really land wanted on the moon though he later called it a joke. the prank didn't seem to phase him or the warriors. he had 35 in the 13 130-125 victory. the cleveland browns still have a shot to make the
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playoffs. three games left. and what do you do when you're looking for a breakthrough after 20 years of football misery? you seek counsel from a proven winner. hence the browns brought in kobe bryant. kobe talked about the mamba mentality or his kill instinct. yes, they have a shot at post season, but they're under 500, in third place. they need to win the next three games and get a lot of help. haven't been to the playoffs since 2002. they've also lost 11 in a row to the broncos. i guess this their is a chance. these are -- i guess there is a chance. these are heady times in cleveland. that's our time. >> thank you very much. the match. the match! all right. she was one of the most influential cast members on "saturday night live" in the history of the show actually. and played a part in changing the course of comedy. experience the incredible story of comedy great gilda radner in her own words, "love, gilda."
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