the s&p up 7. [closing bell rings] nasdaq up 14. next week we have great shows planned for you. i will see you on the claman county downthen. until then have a great weekend. time for "after the bell." connell: we wrap up a volatile week on wall street. all three major averages ending the day in the green on trade optimism. that is what we're going with today. melissa: right. connell: worries about trade. melissa: no, trade optimism. connell: yeah. president trump came out earlier said a deal with china potentially is close. the dow settling higher by 107 point. up as many as 132 points earlier in the session. i'm connell mcshane. melissa: i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." the s&p 500, nasdaq also ending in positive territory. all three major averages in the red for the week though. more on big market movers. here is what is new at this hour. a reputation up in flames. the white house, a heated

meeting just wrapping up there. president trump sitting down with vaping industry executives to discuss the escalating crisis across the u.s. but are the companies solely to blame? we are breaking down their spiraling business and how the president is planning to address the growing epidemic. blasting the quote, greatest propaganda machine in history. the latest critic of mark zuckerberg and other social media titans. plus hackers are waiting. the way you charge your cell phone might leaving your data vulnerable. uh-oh. connell: let's get to fox business team coverage. a lot of news here today. blake burman and edward lawrence are at the white house one in, one out. gerri willis down on the floor of the new york stock exchange. on the vaping story, melissa referenced, blake. reporter: i was in door for 55 minutes as president trump held the meeting. he threw his support behind

raising smoking age to 21. it remains to be seen whether or not he support as ban on flavored vaping products. thises with at times a very testy meeting in cabinet room as executives from e-cigarette and vaping companies, members of vaping associations and also health care advocates. the president at one point, really, at self point, expressed some sort of reservation as it relates to a flavored vaping ban for adults. his concern at that point, would be counterfeiting. >> he watched prohibition. you look with the alcohol. you look at cigarettes. if you don't give it to them, it will come here illegally. they are going to make that. but instead of reynolds or juul or, legitimate companies, good companies making something that's safe, they will be selling stuff on the street corner that could be horrible. reporter: there was unanimous agreement in the room children should of course not be able to get their hands on flavored

vaping products. advocates for a ban, saying getting rid of the products is the best way to insure they don't make their way into the hands of children. there were, as i mentioned several testy exchanges here. one was between senator mitt romney and a vaping advocate. watch here. >> kids, how about the children? >> yes, sir. >> we got almost six million kids addicted to nicotine. they're getting into nicotine because of flavors. 66% of the kids addicted to these products are saying they didn't even know it had nicotine in it. they thought it was candy type product. it is the flavor that is drawing kids in. reporter: now the president said that a final decision is coming soon. connell, melissa, he did not specify a timeline. back to you. connell: stuff like this a number of times. very interesting. thanks, blake. melissa: the hong kong human rights bill is on the president's desk. he is yet to sign it.

here is edward lawrence with the latest on that. reporter: on the short side outside of the white house. hong kong human rights bill on president's desk here at white house he indicated he would look at it not say which way he would go, sign it or not sign it. on the phase one trade deal. we're potentially getting close. he said it is coming along this afternoon. this afternoon he is looking forward to possibly doing this deal. however, a senior white house official, telling the me this afternoon that 15% tariffs on december 15th, scheduled to go into effect are still scheduled to go into effect. one caveat, a senior administration official says if there is a phase one deal on paper, the president could change his mind. >> this is the best economy we ever had. we're up again today. the china deal is coming along very well. the question is whether or not i want to make it.

connell: we. reporter: we heard about president xi xinping about a phase one deal. he would reach a deal but not shy away from retaliating anyway. the comment that set up president trump that the deal should be made on equality. on "fox & friends" the president said it should not be deal. >> we have a deal potentially very close. he wants to make it. connell: much more than i want to make it. i'm not anxious to make it. i told president xi, this can't be like an even deal because we're starting off from the floor and you're already at the sealing. reporter: two trade teams are connously talking at the deputy level as we speak. tariffs seem to be the sticking point with this. when to roll them back and how much to roll back. that is the sticking point. back to you. melissa: edward lawrence, thank you. connell: on a friday, to the markets the dow was able to snap a four-week winning streak or

did snap the four-week winning streak. it was down for the week. so we end on a high note, gerri willis up 109. not enough to turn us positive, right? >> no. all three major averages snapping winning streaks. the dow four weeks. zip 500 snapping a six-week winning streak. the nasdaq seven. could have been better. we ended up on all three major averages. that is something i guess. talk about very famous hedge fund manager ray dalio. this story caught eye of all the traders. "wall street journal" saying he was betting against the stock market. and dalios firing back saying it is wrong. i want to make clear we don't have any such net bets that the stock market will fall. pretty definitive there. moving on to walmart now. that company betting big on china. over the next five to seven years. go on to read the rest of it. we explained that we were not betting against it. they have said that it would turn by march. that is what they thought he had

said. walmart is betting big on china. doubling down with 500 new stores. they will remodel 200 stores. now this is an area they get a lot of growth in. triple the level of sales growth they get here in the u.s. of a. this will be the world's largest grocery market by 2023. you can see why walmart would be betting big there. back to you. connell: gerri, thanks. melissa: no backing down, a bombshell, we can't say bombshell anymore. a massive report from the doj. it shows how far china is willing to go to take on the u.s. we'll talk to steve forbes of forbes media. he is the chairman there. connell: will will will be a bol interview. melissa: no more bombshells i'm out outlawing that. you can't say that anymore. connell: what nasa is talking about one of the most complicated spacewalks in its history. melissa: that is closer to a bombshell because there is

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there. jonathan? reporter: it was a tacit and somewhat surprising admission by the president, that he feels in a really difficult spot over the hong kong human rights and democracy act. wanting to support the pro-democracy activists on the one hand and wanting to appease china in the middle of these tough trade talks on the other. listen here to the president. >> we have to stand with hong kong but i'm also standing with president xi. he is a friend of mine. he is an incredible guy. we have to stand but would i like to see them work it out, okay? we have to see them work it out. but i stand with hong kong. i stand with freedom. i stand with all of the things we want to do but we're also in the process of making the largest trade deal in history. reporter: the activists have been making it very clear they really want president trump to sign this act but china has equally said it would be furious if he does. and pro-beijing lawmakers here

in hong kong have also said the president would be making a serious mistake if he signs it. >> once you have done it, there is no turning back. hong kong people will be driven, relying on mainland china. reporter: meantime there are district council elections due to take place here on sunday. they are being seen as a referendum on the pro-democracy movement. one leading activist told us today, it is time for all those who support democracy in hong kong to make a mark at the ballot box. >> it's time to have the protest vote, to express our anger, to the crackdown. reporter: all 31,000 members of hong kong's riot police force will be on duty sunday. it will be a tense election day. back to you. connell: no doubt. jonathan hunt in hong kong for us.

we have the heritage foundation policy analyst. we'll talk about the elections in a minute olivia. back to the legislation waiting here in the united states on the president's possible signature, impose sanctions on human rights abusers among other things, can you speak about that, from your point of view, what the impact would be u.s., china relations, trade relations if the president signs the legislation and impact if he doesn't? we don't know exactly what he will do yet? >> president's rhetoric unfortunately gives a sense u.s. in some cases might capitulate to beijing's demands. of ever since congress passed this legislation. beijing has been making no short of noise over this bill. i think that the u.s. should not, under any circumstances make it look like they're willing to capitulate to beijing. that being said, the president has three options. obviously he can sign the bill.

or he can veto the bill. but the third option for the president to do nothing, essentially the bill would become law. this may be the option that he leans towards but either way the american people and the american government need to stand with those who are in favor of peaceful protesting, not violence as we have seen undertaken in particular by the hong kong security forces. connell: if you were to veto the bill, there may be a veto-proof majority in the congress to override the veto. that doesn't necessarily take away political impacts to your point. we'll watch, maybe tonight or tomorrow, we'll see what the president or when he makes his decision on that. but those elections that jonathan mentioned, you know, these local elections on sunday in hong kong what should we expect there? some seeing this as kind of a referendum on the protest movement i suppose. what do you expect? >> the entire world has been watching hong kong closely over the past several months.

of course with an election, coming forward, one of the branches of that government is going to see whether or not there might be changes, some transition there. we should watch very close hi to see whether or not violence in fact erupts. over the past week or so we've seen an uptick in violence. we need to watch closely to make sure fundamental human rights freedom of average hong kongers is preserved even as they take to the streets. connell: not all of hong kong officials, especially top officials are elected in free elections. demonstrators continue to ask for that in their list of demands. probably their biggest demand right now. you could argue. is that ever anything that you could see beijing giving in to, and allowing before this all over? into i think that is the huge million dollar question, whether beijing would relent on universal suffrage. that would be a fundamental transformation of hong kong's political system. it remains to be seen whether

hong kong will transition from current intermediary stage to some sort of full-fledged democracy. we'll wait and see. connell: we'll watch hong kong as we do every weekend once again this weekend. olivia. thanks for coming on. melissa: through the looking glass. tesla's shattered window heard and unfortunately for them seen around the world. what the electric car company's botched cyber launch what it means for it next. haters hate. taylor swift's feud with the former record company. details later this hour. spend at a small business, an average of 67 cents stays local. shop small and watch it add up. small business saturday by american express is november 30th.

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l.a. with more of the shattered hope, jeff? reporter: ah-ha. melissa, it started so well. i'm at the tesla design center where this took place. spacex is behind me as well. take a look. it started well with the truck rolling out, the all electric tesla pickup, the cyber truck, a bigger range than anybody thought. 500 miles on a single charge? pretty amazing. price for the low end model, less than $40,000. less than anybody thought. all good. elon musk decided let's show them that tesla armor glass, you can hit it with a metal ball and nothing will happen. or will it? take a look. >> oh, my gosh. [bleep] well, maybe that was a little too hard.

reporter: swearing definitely not on script. i got to give musk credit. at first you don't succeed. hey, try not to succeed a second time. that is exactly what happened. he has his lead designer there, the guy with the arm been signed to a pitching contract with the l.a. dodgers, try again. and again, they broke another window in the truck. so there you go. two for two. what can i tell you. i have to give them credit. i have been to a lot of automotive unveils. most of them go exactly to script. musk was out there and just talking. the other thing, the question is this a niche market is this something that will be broader? well, i mean it looks like a neath market to me, but -- niche market to me, he took pains to compare it to the f-150, the number one truck in america, showed a tug-of-war between the

two, the cyber truck a big winner in the tug-of-war. what can i tell you. melissa: are you sure that was not a today lowerrian? i think it was the delorean. reporter: a little lighter and the pontiac aztek. connell: not the first time elon musk had trouble with a launch. he faced a quote-unquote failed launches over the years. mostly spacex related. not necessarily tesla. jeremy owens joins us from market watch. he is the tech editor. everybody is having a few laughs at elon musk and tesla. it was funny. what it appears, or maybe, really is a genius. he has us talking about this truck. he will make another big buzz when they fix it. or that guy with the arm, that threw the rock got fired and bunch of other people at tesla. what's your pick, jeremy? >> no, i definitely think there was one financial analyst this morning who said they probably

planned that, did that on purpose. the whole reason they have the big launch event for things that won't show up for years if they show up at all people saying tesla, elon musk over and over again and the entire discussion this morning is around cyber truck and elon musk and tesla and for a car company pays nothing for advertising, does not advertise, this is what they're looking for, have you and me sit here to talk about this over and over again on tv news. connell: are you saying you think he did it on purpose or? >> i don't know if he did it on purpose, but that entire show was meant to get buzz, to get people talking. so i don't think that they failed in that, just because they broke a window. that got people talking even more. connell: oh, they were talking all right. couple more stories while we have you here this is kind of interesting. speaking of setbacks. it's a setback of its own in the latest attempt to take on apple. microsoft is pushing back a date it will launch its new surface

ear buds as it calls them. they will miss out on the holiday shopping season. supposed to take on air poureds pro from apple? what do you think of this? big deal? >> not really that big of a deal. if you remember when apple first came out with airpods, they announced them, didn't get them out for the holiday season. didn't get them out until the next year, right? this is the same kind of thing. they are trying to come out with wireless ear buds. google has its own. if you're trying to make a long-term play, doesn't matter if you miss this one. microsoft is making enough money they will not be hurt by having this out there. they don't make much money from selling their own hardware any way. not to put them out when they're bad, put a bad product out there, to get it out when it is right. connell: charging time, that is better than apple. eight hours versus four 1/2. this story is really interesting, a lot of people are talking about it today, in

social media and elsewhere. social media companies, especially facebook got slammed by a new prominent player if you will. somebody that might surprise you, but you probably will recognize. let's take a listen. >> all this hate and violence is being facilitated by a handful of internet companies that amount to the greatest propaganda machine in history. it only seems fair to facebook, youtube, twitter, your product is defective. you are obliged to fix it, no matter how much it costs and no matter how many moderators you need to employ. connell: sacha baron cohen in his own voice i might add, really going after facebook especially but what do you make of all this? >> well, i love the speech. i thought he did a great job. he mentioned that the is first time he has given a speech as sacha baron cohen instead of one of his many characters. what he had to focus on facebook

and youtube, he excoriated them, he said the result of this should be our legislators setting new standards for these companies. we need laws that these companies have to live up to. this is something that a lot of us in silicon valley have been saying. even some companies themselves, set new standards. you can stop this. but instead, the politicians in d.c. have hearings, yell, scream and do nothing, right? it is time for new laws relating to these companies that set some kind of standards you can then go after them when they break those. connell: i hear you. we have it. covered them a lot in washington, to your point talk about it, don't necessarily act upon it. it become as company story. one company says no ads at all. do you think facebook will ever reverse itself on the political ads? or stick to this position that it has right now? no. >> i think they will definitely stick with it until 2020. they will never do anything that will hurt them economically.

if he make money on it they will stick with it. that is sure for every company. until they make laws that don't benefit them economically they will continue to do it. connell: good as always. jeremy owens. thanks. melissa: spy games, a new charge of espionage, a former employee of a u.s. company might make the case for president trump's prolonged trade war with china. we'll talk to steve forbes, forbes media chairman next. connell: a major warning ahead of the holiday season. if you charge your phone while traveling, you might want to think twice about that. melissa: that is worrisome. and "star wars" fans will soon have another reason to celebrate. merchandise featuring bade by yoda. breakout stars of the disney "the mandalorian." it is hitting stores with variety of products rolling out on shelves in the coming months.

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but terrified. connell: looking out the window seeing that. speaking of terror near the tarmac. a new warning for travelers. if you're charging your low battery phone at the airport. maybe you want to think twice about that. l.a. county district attorneys office says hackers could be waiting for you. they call it a s usb charger scam. it can completely drain your bank account. that is the warning on that. melissa: wow. china caught stealing u.s. trade secrets. former monsanto employee and chinese national has been indicted in missouri on charges of economic espionage for the chinese government. steve forbes, forbes media chairman joins me on this one. this is fascinating to me, steve, this explained why so many businesses look like they're being hurt bit tariffs. or being hurt in the short term. whether we're talking about former or companies like apple but at the same time people

running companies understand why it is important to have this fight because they have been robbed for so long. what do you think? >> the question is not there are abuses like that, stealing of trade secrets, denying access to markets in china, forcing mergers with the subtly of tony soprano we have a great deal to you. the best way to deal with it, taxes on american businesses and china may hurt china but hurts us as well. what we do with the indictment in missouri. you find the perpetrators and punish them. up until president trump came into office, enforcement was sporadic. you go after the bad people, there are virus ways to punish them. melissa: let me pushback a little bit. in 2018 they announced a 1000 talents plan, they were recruiting scientific researchers. this person that was arrested he proposed himself to the chinese

government saying he was currently working for monsanto. they recruited hill. he stayed at the time. he stole the proprietary algorithms help farmers understand what to do with the plants. this is one of the great trade secrets of monsanto. he bought a one-way plane ticket back. in that case the chinese government got involved encouraged him to do it. punishing him alone isn't enough. >> you punish others in the government as well who recruited him. you also can go against the government. take various banks in government, if you deny them access to the swift system they are toast, they are done. you have government punishments, you hit the government in various ways through hitting their banks, hitting state-owned companies as well as individuals denying them access, working with our allies. the europeans go through this. japanese go through it.

canadians go through it. present a united front with china, this behavior is unacceptable. when you put the finger on china alone, especially japan pointing a finger at china, that has an impact. melissa: president trump meeting with top executives in the vaping industry this afternoon. listen to this. >> you have to look at the history of it. and now instead of having a flavor that is at least safe, they're going to be having a flavor that is poison. that's a big problem. melissa: so i'm not sure what he was referencing there but on this topic you have president trump originally saying that he wants to get rid of all the flavored vapes. he is backpedaling on that now. he is getting criticized for that. if you look at this issue in particular, you know, the thing that has caused all the damage, really caused the massive long damage that we've seen is with the vitamin e oil. that isn't the stuff that came from juul. is it unfair that juul's business has been so damaged by

this crisis in, the deaths we've seen when it wasn't actually due to their products? >> that's right. if you have a defective automobile, you don't ban all automobiles you deal with the particular problem and these were rogue ingredient put in that shouldn't have been there in the first place and those companies are not responsible for it. in terms of vaping, in britain, health care organizations advocate vaping as a way of avoiding smoking. vaping is 95% safer than cigarettes. cigarette are truly lethal. vapeing shouldn't do it, if you're going to do something, vaping is far better than smoking a cigarette. melissa: steve, smoking had been largely eradicated among kids. it wasn't cool anymore. the whole campaign, makes your hair smell, your skin wrinkle. it was pretty much gone. but vaping is hugely popular among kids. even though juul is not selling to kids, they made flavors that would appeal to them. they created the whole product

and phenomenon appealing to kids. don't they bear some burden for the vaping crisis among underage people? >> that is like saying you make liquor and some teenagers under the age of 21 drink it, therefore ban liquor. we tried that. didn't work very well. the fact of the matter is, adults like the flavors. they don't like the tobacco flavor. they want to get away from that. they are the biggest fans of flavors that juul and others sell. among teenagers we being humans will do things like we shouldn't do, eating too many sugars, all that kind of stuff. vapeing is far less than a bad thing to do than smoking cigarettes or taking up drugs or opioids. melissa: steve forbes, thank you. i love the lively discussion on both of those topics. you're fantastic. have a great weekend. connell: that was a interesting discussion at the white house t went on for about an hour. all the executives and president talking about it. speaking of discussion among music titans this is serious.

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♪. connell: making a public plea. music titan scooter brown offering to make peace with the pop star taylor swift after his family received death threats potentially from the singer's fan base. to fox business's jackie deangelis with more on this live from the newsroom. >> good afternoon, to you guys. this is interesting the whole thing started when publicly taylor swift blast the scooter braun and the record label not to use her songs in up coming documentty and the upcoming vmas. it said basically be a good little girl, shut up or be punished. scooter braun wanted to stay out of the fray, he said, since your public statement last week there were numerous death threats directed at our family.

we i assume this was not your intention but it is important you understand that your words carry a tremendous amount of weight. we have from elizabeth warren she sided with swift. before braun came back with his instagram post about the death threats. here is what elizabeth warren had to say. unfortunately @taylor swift 13, one much many threatened by a private equity firm. they're globalling up more and more of our economy, cost jobs, and describing our entire industries. ite time to rein in private equity firms and i've got a plan for that. connell: jackie, thanks. glowing into success. a pair are turning a their passion into a multimillion-dollar business. watermelon sleeping mask, sold out eight times. this sun with of the best products at at sephora.

thanks for joining us. why would you want to put a watermelon smoothie on my face? >> grandmother used to rub watermelon rhines on the skin. you will wake up with watermelon as. melissa: why wouldn't i use watermelon rine. your product is lovely. $50. why wouldn't i go to your grandmother's traditional recipe? >> you can. it is with a host of ingredients to give you the same effect of the beauty facial. melissa: you have preserve to last longer. melissa: you couldn't take watermelon out of fridge and la have last for a while. >> exactly. >> it must be hard to get into the beauty industry at this

point in time. it is a really crowded field. >> it is, the fact we always shared our journey with our customers from the very beginning on social media has been really a show of transparency and authenticity for our community. we're at half a million followers on instagram because of this. i think they enjoy seeing the whole process, select the ingredients, mixing products and showing the product development process. >> yeah. how hard was it to get your business started in? there are a lot of people out in our audience. we like to celebrate entrepreneurs and celebrate small businesses. this is one of the reasons we had you on today to inspire other people. >> thank you. melissa: what are some of the biggest hurdles? >> in the beginning we yoursed to work at l'oreal, sara, my cofounder and myself. when you're in a big company a lot of things are taken care of for you, legal or accounting. starting your own company means you have to have your own hands in everything with limited resources. we bootstrapped company. we are independent today we started with our savings of

$25,000. being scrappy, finding ways to make it big was a hurdle. it is part of the journey. melissa: how do you do that? you have $25,000 you have to do all these things you just said? >> very create tiff and scrappy. one of the ways we did it, instead after seed round we consulted for a lot of other brands because we had the marketing expertise. we did that instead of an investment round so we can remain independent. melissa: wow. tell me about some of your other products before we go. >> of course. one of our best-sellers this launched at sephora, avocado eye cream. this has retinal is gold standard ingredient. it has side-effects. we cap sue lated with nutritious avocado extract which can work with all sensitive. this product is it our fog mist. melissa: very cool. >> the mist comes out like a

fog. melissa: christine, thank you for coming on. i hope you inspire a lot of people to follow their dreams. >> thank you for having me. connell: we shift gears. there is new fallout in the jeffrey epstein case. attorney general bill barr is blasting epstein's suicide as the quote, perfect storm of screw ups in an interview he did with the associated press. as we bring david asman in. that keeps this story going. where will it go next? >> i was at a dinner party two nights ago. i asked a show of hands, how many people here think he was murdered as opposed to suicide? everybody put up their hands for murder. the guy's death is a mystery. now bill barr is much smarter, more tuned in than any of us at "the dinner party." at the same time, there is this suspicion there was something that went on. it wasn't coincidence that the two guards happened to fall asleep for three hours and all the other incidents that led to his death. there will be suspicion i think for a very long time about this, because the people who wanted him out of the way were so

powerful, there were so many of them, including of course prince andrew. connell: i don't think irony is lost the day is 22nd of november. when you have stories like this, where somebody dies, people start to come up with theories, unless you have evidence, kennedy assassination we never really got -- so people make up their own stories. we don't really have, we quite frankly don't know what happened? >> we don't. on the other hand we have enough other cases where people despite having been in prison, you know, secure facilities, managed to die, a lot of people suspect. you think of whitey bolger, a prime example past couple years t happened before. if anybody was supposedly the target for a hit like this it would have been jeffrey epstein. connell: that part is true. so, big night i'm sure, every night is a big night on "bulls & bears." on a friday let's end in style. what do you have? >> for those viewers who love andy mccarthy, you will

recognize his face here. he will talk about all the new investigations that will be revealing over the next couple of weeks just as impeachment thing is kind of settling in. as we're digesting that, as congress is a on a break. you will hear a lot of stuff what went on with the russia investigation that a lot of democrats might not like. connell: that and more from david and the crew. melissa: look forward to that. a dangerous mission, astronauts taking on a second mission in series of 10. details next. plus cashing in on the holidays. find out which items will break the bank. where you can save a little cash. i peeked ahead. i know the answer. >> come on a. melissa: i know it is good though. connell: bombshell. ♪. does your broker offer more than just free trades?

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>> we have the fox business alert from the food and drug ministration warning consumers to avoid romaine lettuce that was grown in california, the agency is investigating an outbreak of e. coli and it comes after nearly 100,000 pounds of solid was recalled just yesterday. enter due to concerns about e. coli, the packages sold in aldie, sam's club, giant eagle, 28 people have been hospitalized since outbreak. >> not walking alone in america european astronaut started the spacewalk to make repairs to the international space station we are live in miami with the latest on this. reporter: to spacewalk up into space walks down in a series of complicated cosmic operations on the outside of the international space station. today spacewalk, the second of four plans to repair the alpha

magnetic spectrometer, something nasa likened to perform heart bypass surgery, very complicated challenging work. 250 miles above earth, commander and flight engineer spent six and half hours on their spacewalk in mission control complimented them for a job well done. the scientific instrument that is offered magnetic spectrometer and for more unseen dark matter that makes up most of the mass of the universe. it looks like the ams was installed in 2011 and only supposed to last three years but it has lasted eight years so far, however, it is been wearing out. so this series of spacewalk is keeping the spectrometer in place and space science ally. -- not cutting the carbon dioxide current tubes in preparation for the next spacewalk when they will install new pumps. take a listen.

>> good news we see the pressure dropping so that's a good cut. >> more than 20 unique tools were specifically designed for this repair work including a zip tie cutter designed by students in houston, the alpha magnetic spectrometer is a tool among scientists because they really do think it's going to help unlock the mysteries of what exactly the universe is made of and how it all began in today was the 223rd spacewalk for maintenance and repair operations on the outside of the space station since they first began in 1998. >> so cool, the alpha magnetic spectrometer, and getting my son one for christmas. >> this is going to be the last story of the week right after the ball. were trying to help you out, you will spend more or you will

spend less this holiday season, there is a new survey revealing the average cost of a turkey the friday before things given, the average cost of a turkey at his lowest since 2010 but here's the problem, the money you save on the thanksgiving meal under meal will have a christmas tree shortage at farm states oregon, michigan, that can mean higher prices for christmas trees. i really thought about this. [laughter] we have artificial christmas trees, i have to admit the last few years. this should not impact me but we use real turkeys. >> you can't really use the artificial turkey for the dinner. were we going to do the other story? >> if you're planning a trip to the happiest place on earth, disney world revealing for park

magic ticket option. it's available for 89 bucks a day, somebody called me before the day and said which park they should go to they do not know about this. i'm going to call them back. >> the extra ten seconds for that story. >> a lot of people going over the holidays, that was good information. "bulls & bears" start right now ♪. david: details of a report by justice department michael horowitz about the origins of the fbi russian probe getting leaked to the press and andrew mccarthy is with us explaining the significance of this and a lot more. but first, tesla introducing the highly anticipated electric cyber truck but a big snafu at the reveal shows stunning audience members and investors and most of all ceo elon musk, way to sue happens. this is "bulls & bears". thank you for joining us i'm david asman.