let's go to tres knippa in chicago. all right, 331,000 people filed jobless claims last week.emocrats say don't worry, all of these laid off people, they have been liberated. they are free to pursue their dreams. how do you feel about that? tres knippa. >> you know, stuart, i find it rather odd that somebody can present forth an idea that says a government program is meant to liberate me. doesn't that sound a little bit ironic, that it actually takes the government to liberate me. and that that is so vile and disgusting down to my very core, i can barely stand it. this administration has reached new lows with this comments about, oh, the obamacare is going to actually free me up to follow my dreams. my dreams are up to me. it's not going to come from washington. it doesn't come from the incentive there. and for me, this is-- like i said, this administration has reached a new low with this one. stuart: you're in chicago, i'm in new york. i felt those vibes coming at me from a thousand miles away. thank you, trey. we appreciate it, good stuff. back to the markets and back to nic

stuart: tres knippa, we won't deegan o what is going on with oil and protests in venezuela.ill buzz you. >> in this case you have to remember global supplies of crude are as low as they have been since 2005. this rally is not being driven by venezuela. are there important things we should be learning? absolutely. should we be supporting those protests? you bet. the leadership in venezuela is the slime of humanity and they need to be overthrown period. stuart: now we are agreement, you are back on the show. thanks very much. great stuff for the real halftime report. appreciate it. the defense budget proposes the fewest, the smallest u.s. army since before world war ii and looks like they want to rely more on machines like unmanned aerial drones. funds new cyberprograms, other ships, here's a look at some defense stocks. most of them green arrows going up. this budget also looks good for google, getting into robots. another new high today, google is at 1226. rellx netflix fans, the deal with comcast probably will not jack up the price you pay for streaming but what about netfl

and to another regular, tres knippa.o miss us, miss covering the opening he bell and you like to get the politics in there, don't you? >> indeed i do. stuart, i like your show so much. i don't care if you decide to cover the overnight asian trading, i'd still happily come on. it as they say in show business, have your people call my people. stuart: you're going to come with us, because you're going to cover the real half time report at 12:45 eastern when the market is half over and you'll join us on monday with that. thanks very much indeed. we're off and running, it's friday morning, the opening bell has rung and we're off four points, 16.1 is where we are. listen to this, in time for the thousand dollar club plus, not talking about google, we're talking priceline, stronger profits, good profits, i think it's at a new high, over 1300, nicole? >> oh, new high. 1,332 new high on priceline today. they came out with better than expected profits and growth in asia. they have two names under their umbrella kayak.com and aguna

come on in tres knippa from chicago., when did you turn your set off last night during the big game? >> stuart, i must admit i made a bit of a mistake. i'm a texas boy so what do you think i was doing during the super bowl? i was in the next room playing texas hold em with buddies and eating barbecue. in my mind i said well, now what i'll play cards for a while and jump over and catch the second half of the game. oops. [laughter] oops. stuart: real fast, january, awful month, february, how is it going to go for stock investors? >> i still think we're under -- the problem is the market action in my opinion, we keep trying to recover, but watch the nasdaq and watch the small caps sector. to get up or down you're going to get leadership from one of those places so you've got to look for days that the nasdaq is gaining on the s&p. today it isn't so i've got to be on the defensive a little bit. stuart: we hear you, look by the way, take a look at the big board, we're down 8 points in the early going. rotten month of january a