of trade. crossing that 1997 level of 31% gain might b this year. still pretty good don't you think? [closing bell rings] >> tax-loss selling is all it is. susan: closing out the day. hand it over to ashley webster . president trump's trade advisor thinks the deal could be signed. i'm jackie deangelis in for melissa francis. ashley: i'm ashley webster in for connell mcshane this is "after the bell." the s&p 500 also snapping a two-day record streak.

nasdaq also in the red but still top performing index of the year. of course we've got you covered from washington to wall street. blake burman live in d.c. deirdre bolton on floor of new york stock exchange. but blake, first to you. reporter: ashley, the south china morning post kicked off speculation when it said china's vice premier liu he would be coming to washington this weekend and would be a signatory to the phrase one trade deal. president trump's top trade advisor peter navarro would not say if the china's top negotiator is headed to d.c. navarro would match the timeline. he said the phase one deal could be signed in the beginning part of january. listen here. >> we'll probably have a signing on that within the next week or so we're waiting for translation. as quickly as possible, if, i had my way, would have been out right away. basically you need to get it translated into the chinese and

double-checked so both versions match. reporter: ashley of note. navarre very said the u.s. version of the language of the broken down of the trade deal is 86 pages long. you will remember when the u.s. and china earlier this year were close to the finish line of the deal that eventually broke apart, at that time, in like april, may, the administration was saying that deal at that point was about 150 pages. now we're hearing what could be signed in the next week, the u.s. version is about 86 pages. it gives you a sense rather, how this phase one part of the deal is just a partial deal for the moment at least. ashley: a lot of in that translation, blake, thank you. -- lost in translation. jackie: tesla making first delivery of cars in china today. shares taking a hit after an analyst predicted a deliveries miss. victoria fernandez from cross mark global investment.

great to see you. it has been a bumpy year for tesla. this is overall a win in terms of deliveries in china. they spent so much on the shanghai facility. looks like it will pay off. >> the fact they were able to make deliveries less than a year after they built that factory, that was a huge factor for tesla and something they were really touting as success for them. they are looking to miss some of deliveries this year. so the stock took a hit today. it's a not a stock we own in our portfolio. we like to look at fundamentals and focus on the balance sheet. metrics have not met what we would like to see. there could be momentum going forward if they ramp up production. jackie: victoria, stick with us. ashley? ashley: as we know the dow couldn't keep the record string going. we're blaming deirdre bolton at stock exchange. but all of it, what happened, db? >> what? i don't have a green suit or anything. it is too late. this is the worst day for stocks in quite a few weeks. so somewhat to be expected if

you listen to traders anecdotally on the floor. last week was amazing week. all-time highs on the dow, s&p 500. a lot of sectors that outperformed all year long, with the s&p of course, up around 30% for 2019, part of the bigger selloff today. two stocks in particular that we are watching. ups and fedex. we've been talking over the past maybe 10 days how amazon is really encroaching more and more into these two companies territory. both of these companies saying you know what? we'll raise prices for heavy shipments in the new year. so 50-pound and more, if those are the size of packages you're ordering, for mosteoe will have to pay more. most analysts are saying, this is probably at least in the short term a good move for both of these companies because obviously if they're charging more they are going to make more on the larger packages but longer term vision of amazon encroaching in their space is very much there as far as longer

term look goes. quick look on this penultimate day of 2019, at apple we have to point out number one dow performer by far, absolutely crushing it. most analysts speaking with, floor traders are saying the airpods were exist of the season of the fact they sold out, shows apple knows how to offer consumers some physical, tangible thing they want in addition to all the streams services everything else they are developing. most people say you know what? this is a pretty good follow-up act to apple's famous iphones. back to you. ashley: i take it all back. that was a fine effort. not all your fault. future of work. amazon employees are reportedly struggling with quote, nerve-wracking robotic coworkers, according to the associated press. tech giant and tech rivals are using robotics, a-1 software, ai software.

jackie: you have this on your mind. ashley: i do. to paris warehouses. bring victoria back in. how much of a stress do the robots put on human coworkers? a, they weigh half a ton. they are flying around. that is a bit intimidating, b, you have to try to keep up with the robots? >> you do. a lot of stress people are concerned their jobs will be replaced by the robots. we've seen amazon come out to bring in educators to start teaching warehouse employees new skills, if they want to leave amazon, go other places they will have skills to do so. they have to be able to use these robots in order to fight delivery dilemma that faces all retailers right now. same day delivery, next-day delivery, that is a huge key for them. he will mead row -- robotics. amazon is getting ahead of the curve a little bit trying to help the employees so they will be better off if that time

comes. ashley: very good. jackie: king of its own content. netflix revealing its own original series and movies topped all 29 teen releases on its own platform. victoria, we said this is all about original content especially as the competition heating up. apple plus, all the other platforms coming out. really not about everything else. it is about what you can deliver that is unique. netflix seems to be doing it. >> they are doing it. obviously new things are coming out. the murder mystery movie, "the irishman," the view something some of the legacy products that will be leaving. episodes of "friends," episodes of "the office." those are most watched. because they were not new in 2019. they were not part of the survey that came out. it's a lot of money put into content. we're seeing that everywhere. we're seeing it at apple. we're seeing it at disney. the one thing netflix has running against them, the other companies have other sources of

revenue they can use to build cash to put towards investment. netflix does not. this is only source of revenue. they may struggle a little bit going forward against new players. jackie: 2020 may be a little bumpy. thank you very much, victoria. >> my pleasure. ashley: good stuff. cashing in on the booming economy. more americans are optimistic apparently about their own life heading into 2020 but will it last? we'll talk to art laffer, former reagan economic advisor next. jackie: plus coming together in the wake of tragedy. two separate attacks on faith rocking the nation. so how can our country turn the tide? we're going to talk to alveda king, niece of dr. martin luther king, jr. this hour. ashley: and the escalating blame game. mayor bill de blasio pinning new york city's homeless crisis, guess who? on president trump. is local leadership really to blame? we'll have details later this you need...

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jackie: americans feeling sunny about their lives in 2020. according to the latest "usa today" and suffolk university poll, 80% of the respondent are optimistic about their own lives in the new year, with many pointing towards the strong economy as the reason why. here now, art laffer, former reagan economic advisor, and

chairman of laffer associates. art, are you surprised to hear this? i look at stock market hitting new highs every day. folks i speak to constantly positive looking at 401(k) balances. i'm not surprised there is optimism going into next year? >> i thought it should be much higher than 80%. thought it should be in the 90% range. seriously had optimism. why shouldn't you be optimistic? the economy is great. it is continuing on and on. this is what it should be. the president put in policies that made it that way. jackie: speaking of those policies, a lot was accomplished this year. people say with the market at these levels, what can the administration do going into election year in 2020, especially with so much strife with the democrats over impeachment? but the trump administration put out the 2020 goals. i think we have them for you here. finalizing usmca obviously. regulating prescription drug prices.

regular order spending bills. confirming more judges. prioritizing paid family leave. these are very lofty goals. if all of these go through, americans will feel even better? >> yeah. it is old trump lie i'm getting sick and tired of winning all the time. it is really fun, isn't it? isn't it a nice economy? now you know what it was like living through the reagan era. it was spectacular day in, day out, the way it is now. it will continue if he is reelected. a lot of things he can do in the second term which would be phenomenal. continuing things would make it even better. just what is done already, no reason to expect this economy not to perform really well during 2020. it should do really well. jackie: yeah. art, a lot of people look to the economy as one of the central issues going into the election, especially getting proposals from democrats, how they would spend on health care for example, how they would pay for some of their policies. some folks say, even though you can gripe about how the

president does things, you know, how vocal he is on twitter, et cetera, you can't deny the fact that his policies work this year and the stock market is reflection of that people will think about that going into the booth. >> yeah, they work really, really well. i don't care how you give me the money. i love getting it. i think people should feel the same way. this administration has been just phenomenal on the economy. if you look at democratic candidates, each one of them is reflecting and proposing really terrible stuff for the economy, which would mean if they got in there, there would be a big crash. i hope the expectation doesn't come through. these people were really ruin the economy with the proposals they're now saying. if they change their mind. if they became kennedy democrats or clinton democrats they would do a great job but they are not. they're proposing all the wrong things when the economy is doing well, trump is doing a great job. jackie: they need more left of center traders say. consistency is key. we'll see.

art, great to have you. thank you so much. >> nice to be on there. say hello to ashley for me. i love a-1. ashley: thank you for remembering, art. >> i do. ashley: art and i go way back from nashville. i was in nashville for years. art laugher is a great guy. growing dissent. the staff of one democratic front-runner is sounding the alarm over campaign's use of a tech giant it is vowing to break up. calling it a act of terrorism. how iran is responding to a major military move by the u.s. and what it could mean for peace in the middle east. that's next. ♪. (man) we weave security into their business. (second man) virtualize their operations. (woman) and build ai customer experiences. (second woman) we also keep them ready for the next big opportunity. like 5g. almost all of the fortune 500 partner with us.

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♪. ashley: the u.s. carrying out airstrikes in iraq and syria against iran proxy forces just days after a u.s. military contractor was killed by a rocket attack in a military compound. lucas tomlinson now at the pentagon with the latest developments on an interesting

story. lucas. reporter: ashley, defense secretary mark esper says his forces are ready to strike again if necessary. >> we will take additional actions as necessary to insure that we act in our own self-defense and we deter further bad behavior from militia groups or from iran. reporter: the pentagon released this drone video showing airstrikes by u.s. air force jets 7:00 p.m. local time sunday in iraq. f-15 strike eagles dropped 500 and 250-pound laser-guided bombs in western iraq and eastern syria rhett ribbings for that attack in northern iraq killing american defense contractor. 51 were wounded. iranian proxy force designated a terrorist group by the state department 2009 has vowed revenge on the roughly 5,000 u.s. troops currently deployed to iraq. president trump's former defense secretary john bolton, called

the strikes, quote a good first step. the ayatollahs must pay a steep price for on going sport of terrorism. the leader of the is designated terrorist blamed for the 1983 bombing in u.s. embassy in kuwait two months after beirut. prime minister of iraq has condemned the strikes. the iranian backed militias are responsible for killing 600 u.s. troops during the iraq war, ashley. ashley: lucas tomlinson, thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> we have will luger, koch institute for research. great to see you. iran is denying any activity. if you lived or traveled in the region you know it has its tentacles all throughout. there is good chance it was probably involved. your thoughts. >> it is really understandable why the administration would want to hit back against those responsible for these rocket attacks that killed that contractor but i think one question really for us is, you

know, is the first time this happened? no, it isn't the first time. and the fact is, is that the united states is maximum pressure campaign doesn't appear like creating a docile iran. it seems like it is making the relationship much more complicated, and the relationship much more dangerous i think for the u.s. so where does that leave us? what does this mean? i think what we have to think about is, why are the united states, why does the united states have troops there in the first place? why are they still there even though iraq is not a place where isis is on the move, right? isis has been decimated. we still have troops there. it is not clear what the strategic mission is. if the mission is really about trying to prevent iranian influence in the iraq the horse is really out of the barn with that. given we toppled saddam. that created opportunity for iranian-backed groups in the region to really come to the fore in iraqi politics. we have to figure out what's next. jackie: that is the question, right? it doesn't necessarily seem like there's a strategy per se but

iran is still a big threat. we do know the sanctions are really choking the country maybe why it is motivated to act out in the way it has? >> that is one theory for sure but i have talked to, security study solacer who would say this is iran showing it can actually scratch back. that they in fact have some levers that they can employ to try to push back against the united states. i think the danger we could see escalation not in the united states interest. particularly the trump administration signaled as did the obama administration before that the need to pivot to bigger issues like russia, like china. so the question is, do we want to escalate into a conflict in the middle east that could turn out to be one of these endless wars that president trump is actually trying to end? jackie: it's a good question. certainly a lot to watch as we move into 2020 on that topic. i want to move stateside to some security threats here. a chinese citizen was arrested at a naval base in key west, florida, allegedly taking photos

at the base. this is not an isolated incident. it is raising alarm for some authorities with the possibility of china stepping up intelligence gathering in the united states. your thoughts what this means for the larger picture, is specially with the backdrop of the trade deal that the president just negotiated? >> yeah the u.s.-chinese relationship is extremely complicated. as you could guess from any great power competition, that will happen. but the united states needs to take espionage very seriously as it has to take tech theft and ip protection issues seriously. we need to make sure we employ defense against espionage, but also to prosecute those who are committing it just like you saw last year when a student, if you will, was spying at that same base. so i think it is important to really prosecute these people, send a clear message to the chinese. the relationship is complicated. they're an important trading power as they are a strategic competitor. we can't, we have to understand also that international politics

isn't bean bag as they say, right? so the fact is, that you know, espionage is going to happen between great powers. we have to take it seriously. but we can't be shocked, like casablanca that this is actually happening and we have to remember they are a trading partner too. it is important to both have the positive side of the relationship and be firm on the negative aspects of a competitive relationship like it is with china. jackie: will, real quick, there is espionage here and then there is espionage that occurs there. there is a "wall street journal" article suggesting that a espionage case from 2016 may be more widespread than previously thought. in this trade deal, in phase one there are supposed to be some terms, we have not seen them yet, that will protect against some of these issues moving forward. the question is, how can the united states enforce them and do you think that the chinese will really abide by the agreement that it has made, that they have made? >> yeah. i mean it is hard to trust parchment, right? the fact we have to take the type of measures to protect our secrets, to protect information.

it is not just the government has to do this. businesses as well have to take those measures. but we also have to rely on the fact the chinese have interest in making sure this trading relationship continues. because it is mutually beneficial. it is good for americans. it is also good for the chinese we continue to have a more liberalized trading system than we had, you know, 20, 30 years ago, that helped china and helped the united states. so again, make sure we keep on track on the trade issue, but also make sure we protect on our security measures. that will be the real goldilocks solution if you will. jackie: will, thank you so much. great to see you. happy holidays. >> thank you. ashley: interesting stuff. two separate violent attacks shaking religious communities across the country this weekend. we'll be talking to alveda king. she is the niece of dr. martin luther king, jr., about how the nation can come together. that's next. jackie: pointing the finger. who new york city mayor bill de blasio is blaming for the homeless crisis in his own city, no, he is not taking

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targeting places of worship. a gunman opening fire during a texas church service sunday morning less than 24 hours after five people were stabbed at a rabbi's home during a hanukkah celebration in new york. we've got fox team coverage. jacqui heinrich in monsey, new york, jeff paul in white settlement, texas. start with you, jacqui. reporter: jackie, grafton thomas is facing federal hate crime charges, being held without bail just hours after his defense attorney and family held a press conference saying he is not anti-semitic person but is mentally disturbed. they also addressed evidence investigators found against him. the fbi described a journal in his car with anti-semitic statements and references to nazis and adolf hitler. thomas researched other jewish temples before the monsey attack. according to police thomas stormed home of a rabbi during a hanukkah celebration saturday night, wounding five people, including a the rabbi's own son. an elderly victim is still in

critical condition. when thomas began the spree, he uttered, no one is leaving. the county called in private security guards to keep watch over the synagogue. around the state the governor ordered extra police patrols in orthodox communities like this one. since sent 23rd there has been one anti-semitic attack each day including christmas day a man in traditional clothing was punched in the face in brooklyn. president trump called for unity against anti-semitism. investigators have not commented on reports that the suspect is connected to another stabbing at a synagogue in the very town last month. the documents i mentioned say the suspect was researching other jewish temples just two days before the second stabbing attack. jackie? jackie: jacqui heinrich thanks for that. now jeff is in texas. reporter: we're learning 240 people inside the church in care

ron county texas, at time of the incident. the senior minister tells us had it not been for heroic actions like jack wilson who were inside and pulled out his own gun and stopped the threat, there could have been more lives lost. >> since when do you know when something bad is going to happen? you have to be prepared at all types, at all places. and that is the way that i strive. that is the way that i teach. reporter: wilson says the suspect was wearing some sort of a fake beard and a wig with a knit cap on top at the time of the shooting. he says suspected shooter was sitting in a pew during church services on sunday when he got up. he pulled out a shotgun and began shooting. the suspected shooter ultimately killed two people. worshipers identified the victims as richard white and tony wallace. wallace's family shared this photo with fox news.

this lasted about six seconds. it was captured on the church's live stream. witnesses inside of the services are still trying to understand what they saw and why this all happened. >> we have to remember, he is a creature of god also just like we are. it was a sad thing that he had to come into the congregation to hurt people. it is a sad thing we had to hurt him but, i don't have any hate for this person. i can't, we can't have hate for these people. reporter: investigators today are spending time as they try to learn more about the suspected shooter in this case. he does have some times to the dfw area and has been arrested in the past but the big question is why. jackie? jackie: jeff paul, thank you for that report. ashley: following those two reports, here to react, alveda king, she is the niece of dr. martin luther king, jr. and a fox news contributor. she is also by the way, author of a new book, "the spirit of a dream." thank you for joining us. how do we address this?

two attacks on religious communities just hours apart. what is your thoughts on this, and how do we address it? >> free speech is under siege. the liberty to worship is under siege. however i want america to be encouraged. there is still hope. we still have the american dream. my heart bows out to those families who have lost loved ones and those who have been injured. such violence is never good for the family, the community, the individual, certainly not even for the economy. so we want to pray. now you can't pay people to pray. that is not a job. that's a human experience. so we all need to be praying really and to learn to love each other. in the instance where we had the jewish community attacked and the christian community attacked, however, we still live in a nation where we are free to express our faith and to worship

as we please and choose. so let's continue to pray. however, uncle martin luther king, jr. during his lifetime said we must learn to live together as brothers and i add as sisters or perish together as fools. we will have to love each other and to respect and regard the right to worship. i think it is very tragic, very unfortunate. it seems as though at least one of the perpetrators, some are saying there was some mental problems and those kinds of things. but it is not the time to panic. this is really the time for america to unite, to love, and to pray. ashley: that is a very good message but do you think leaders should be doing more to speak out at times like this and to, you know, preach the words that you have just given us? >> i think we should do that and remember, now i'm 69 years old now, but my grandmother was shot and killed in the church at ebenezer baptist church many years ago.

so i do want to remind us leaders if we take away everybody's guns for example, the bad people will not give us their guns. only good people will do that. in this case a machete was also used, you will try to confiscate everything, poison, all that kind of thing. it is not going to be handled legislatively. but as you suggest, leaders with compassion and understanding we can begin to teach respect, regarding communicate without this terrible violence. ashley: i hate to bring this up but as we saw in the case of texas, it was a gentleman with a gun who quite likely prevented more loss of life. should we be armed, defending ourselves in a place of worship? >> in many places of worship today, there are members of security personnel, who are armed and we think that's terrible to have to do that. however, we found out that it was kind of beneficial in this particular case in texas. so i would say, we need to be

wise but we also need to teach people to communicate without violence. ashley: where does the hate come from, alveda? we're running out of time, i hate to give you a question like that with very little time, but where is the hate coming from? >> hate comes from confusion and absence of regard for love. we have to show people how to communicate without hate. i am a christian evangelist. i would say the devil. i will say that. ashley: we have to leave it there. thank you for your time, dr. alveda king. thank you for being here. >> thank you. jackie: "fox business alert." former nissan chairman carlos ghosn fled house arrest in japan where he is awaiting trial, arriving in lebanon today according to "the wall street journal." it is unclear how he would be able to leave the country. ghosen was arrested after his

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though it is not quite clear to me why. it is suggested as his senior advisor jeff weaver said in an internal email quoted in the article, well, amazon may not be a good company but how do we know any of others are good companies either, citing uline and staples? sounds to me their basic problem problem they're in the private sector and not in the public sector. raises a question, that maybe bernie's way out of this would be to propose nationalizing amazon the way jeremy corbyn was proposing nationalizing industries in the uk. jackie: that is certainly one way to go. if you think about this, it speaks to the fact that amazon is so ubiquitous, you can't ignore it, not use it to a certain extent because of liability in terms of the delivery of supplies and goods that you need? >> that is exactly the point. it is efficient. it is quick. it is cheap. bernie is the one who is proposing "medicare for all." is that going to be efficient, quick and cheap?

one doubts it but that is what bernie is committed to. i think we exposed a kind of inconsistency if not hypocrisy here at the center of the sanders campaign. jackie: shifting gears for a second, taking aim at president trump, mike bloomberg's campaign sparing no effort to spread the message. it is spending $18 million on facebook and blog gel ads attacking president trump according to digital messaging firm acronym. it is additional that $128 million that bloomberg spent on tv ads. shows you the power of the platform that bloomberg is targeting them because of their reach. >> no question about it. we'll find out how powerful tv advertising is and reading into that story i think we have to try to come up with some sort of suggestion what exactly bloomberg is up to and i think it is this, bloomberg is targeting donald trump's

personality in a lot of these ads and it appears bloomberg concluded, this is the democrats biggest opening, vulnerability, he believes he sees in trump's persona. go through the numbers. donald trump has solid base of 35%. there is maybe another 9% of the electorate says they don't care for trump very much but they do like his policies. that leaves the president four our 5% away from 50% he needs to win re-election and i think the bloomberg calculation is he can overwhelm the trump personality with advertising to drive those numbers down and keep them down below 50%. the question is, will he succeed with that or will he not? jackie: that is a great question. dan, we'll see you next year. great to see you. thanks so much for your insight. >> good to be with you. ashley: this story, pope francis says get off your phones at dinner table. during mass over the weekend the pope emphasized people need to

put their phones down, actually talk face-to-face. what a concept, insisting families should be restoring their communication. of course will the congregation listen to the pope's plea? who better to ask than our very own david asman. david, i think the pope is on the right track on this one. >> i agree. isn't it nice he stayed away from politics and economics for a while? frankly gets those kind of screwed up from time to time, particularly economics but yeah, he is right on the mark. the pope really knocked it out of the park on this one. if he can use his influence to get people to put down, as wonderful as these are, i don't want to downgrade the importance of smartphones because they have done so much to equalize the world. we hear a lot how we're unequal, the top from the bottom. this, puts us on par with what used to be genius academics. everybody can google whatever they want now but there are times to put it down and deal with people face-to-face. one of those times is at dinner,

particularly with the family. this was in celebration of the holy family yesterday. that is what context he was talking about it. the family is so important. put down, ban cell phones from the family dinner table. i think that is good advice. ashley: wait for a higher calling but not a call on the iphone. >> higher calling yes. ashley: what is coming up? >> we have a couple of good guests coming up. morgan ortega, a state department spokesperson. she will tell us what is the very latest on the attack of iranian surrogates in iraq and syria. talking about north korea. then we have nypd sergeant joseph i am -- impera interest. rice. founder of "blue lives matter." he talks about the new laws in new york, allows criminals, even violent criminals to get out of jail without putting up a penny of bail money. it is causing a lot of problem for new yorkers a real dangerous situation. he which give us the latest on

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we need from washington. >> new york city mayor, bill de blasio slamming the president after a back and forth on twitter over homeless crises in new york city. deputy editor. when he is here he is off to the gym, this a frustrating mayor. >> that is bill de blasio. you know, mayor de blasio is not only one who is not here. census bureau released date on, on population in the cities. something must be going wrong.

donald trump is one of those who moved to florida. as for homeless problem. bill de blasio has a big enough problem, these are people that have a place to live it is one of the biggest scandals in new york during winner to they don't havhave -- winter they don't hae enough heat, infrastructure is falling apart, a federal judge ordered a federal monitor to oversee public housing in new york cit -- city, it is cheeky r bill de blasio to say president trump is not doing enough for the homeless in new york when he is not doing enough for people already living in public housing in new york. >> you mentioned the exodus out of new york, people trying to get away from high taxes, it is happening elsewhere. it is democrat left leans people who run the government, do it

very poorly. you think that homeless problem is bad in new york city, go west, l.a. is awful and san francisco it off the charts. >> it, it is a very tough thing to see. a lot of us here. in manhattan, a lot of homeless are mentally ill. one of the reasons, they are wandering the streets that liberal lobbies have always on, posed laws that would require mentally ill to take their medications in places like new york, they believe that is intrusive, as a result, they live on street corners, disoriented with no place to go. i think that liberal establishment does have a lot to answer for. as of the cities like l.a., and san francisco and new york. fill up with people living on the streets. >> they have become a threat to the rest of the people living here and the tourists that come here, men tally ill or -- mentally ill or not, they can

become aggressive, had has gotten progressively worse since the mayor has been in power. >> during mayors of guliani and bloomberg. they managed to enforce the rules about sleeping on the streets in subways and so forth, those were the years when tourism skyrocketed in new york city, got to about 60 million people tourist a year. those numbers will turn down if the homeless problem in new york is not dealt with, it will not be belt with in washington -- dealt with in washington but here in new york city by the mayor who is back here after ending his run for the president. >> we'll have to wait for someone told come in, maybe someone like a guliani who actually address the problem head on. >> i am, but don't hold your breath on that one. i don't think it will get much better after de blasio. >> but de blasio like other liberals has same strategy,

point the finger at someone else it is always someone else's fault. >> it is, and residents are getting fed up, that is why i mentioned migration numbers, they are also true in california, illinois, people are getting out. a lot of people live in new york city it will knoll empty out -- not empty out but at the margin some of the best people are leaving. >> thank you, dan. >> all right speaking of new york city, in final preparations, for new year's eve, the times square ball was imluilluminated. it is capable of displays over 16 million colors, and billions of light patterns that create a kaleidoscope affect. 3 thousand waterford crystal

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