we'll do that tomorrow tom lee, thank you for being here good having you as well. options traders see an opportunity. straight ahead in "unusual activity." it's green now up nearly 21% "the halftime report" is back in two minutes. >>> i'm sue herera here is your news update martha mcsally will fill the senate seat held by late senator john mccain. arizona's governor making the announcement this morning. mcsally lost a senate contest to democrat this fall >>> russian president putin says foo weapons have no foreign equivalent and will help ensure that country's security for decades to come. he spoke at a meeting with the top military brass in moscow >>> releasing video which it says shows one of the tunnels allegedly dug by hezbollah across the border with lebanon israel accusing the group of digging those tunnels in order to infiltrate the country and carry out attacks. >>> on a lighter note, the white house releasing the official 2018 christmas photo showing president trump and the first lady standing in the cross hall of the white house the room, as you can see,

maybe you see tom lee's 10%. one never knows. tim has been on this carter has been bear ib. europe is slowing. the data out of china has not been good. there seems to be problems with banks. for more than just the fed reasons. so there are confluence of events taking place knocking the market down. i think it continues couple weeks. >> officially down 20% off the highs in bear market territory the china data not encouraging. >> the i've argued the data has been more or less in a range with the last couple years but actually that started to tend down retail sales last night lowest print in china since 2003. by the way, this has been effectively a straight ryan down over the last seven years. again not happening overnight. but the rest of the world remember we were asking that question when we were going to catch up to the market can with he exist on our own? we can't i repeat, i think the ecb meeting this week. i think the dynamic in france is something making politics worse. a european banking crisis away from taking the market lower i'm not saying that's happening. but i th

tom lee is here, joins us with a counter argument, reveals a prediction of his own on the markets. the call of the day hit a 52 week low is the worst over for royal dutch shell. we discuss that at noon, carl, about ten away see you in a bit. >> off that great show yesterday. thanks. >>> let's get to the cme group and rick santelli. >> hi again, carl. before we get to the meat of the matter, i would like to show a chart going back to 6th 6th of r note yields. why is it so important treasury is getting down, testing this 2.82% level this is the fourth occasion we've spent some time down there even though the low yield close is a couple basis points higher than that. it's significant in so many ways, midpoint of the 2018 closing yield range for ten year also important when we made the first of the two double tops right below 3.25%, the last spot that we paused before the market basically rose very efficiently was a 2.81% yield close. a lot of reasons to pay attention. we all talk about the fed's first day of the two-day fed meeting tomorrow most likely resulting in a rate hike, but th

carter wirth, team seymour, dan nathan and guy adami a major selloff wrapping up the we can tom lee saysear end is still in the cards. he is here to explain. plus the transporting getting slammed down 2% today. but one trader making a contrarian call on a looser in the group. he explains. the dwoo dropping 500. the s&p and nasdaq down% the selling in year end pi

. >> supervisor safai: before we call tom and lee up -- thank you, i was going to recognize them. i appreciate that. i just want to be clear about one of the reasons why we're doing is, because no permits have been issued, is the thinking behind it -- and i know we've had some conversations, but the thinking behind it is -- and i just want to get it on the record more clearly. if we're truly doing a socioeconomic program that's giving access to people and giving them opportunity in this equity program, the idea is if you have wealth, if you've already created wealth for yourself, if you're already financially stable, then the idea's why are we -- why are we allowing you into this program? because it's not stopping anyone accessing other facets of the cannabis industry. we're going to go through the equity program, and we're going to review it at some point. but i think the concern -- and i heard from those in the industry as well as those that fall, i guess, under the equity category, they're saying if this is really giving someone an opportunity to build wealth or get a foothold

. >> jim you think it is over for th the -- did you hear that tom lee along with bitcoin, he's lowering for the giants and 10-6. >> bitcoin a year ago it hits 20,000 this is the anniversary. how about j&j? >> i think -- i have been working all weekend with j & j the second day is the market and the first day is the reaction that i understand on a friday afternoon, very difficult toll try to refute. i like what j&j had to say this morning. the market is so skittish that it has not been able to find the bottom, i am working hard to see where it will be >> we got to go. goldman sachs. >> not yet >> wow >> look at j&j, they have to settle it then you can buy >> all right, jim, we'll see you in a couple of minutes stay tuned, "squawk box" will be right backcaug the crowd, the investment managers at pgim take a long term view. uncovering opportunities for alpha across public and private markets, while anticipating unforeseen risk, has powered our rise to a top ten global asset manager. partner with pgim. the global investment management businesses of prudential financial, inc. the global inve

tom: william lee with us.th abby cohen of goldman sachs to give you conversation on this friday. the news flow extraordinary. please stay with us. this is "bloomberg." ♪ viviana: this is bloomberg surveillance. i'm viviana hurtado. juul staffers said to be getting a $2 million bonus as part of deal to take a stake in the start up. atria's purchase of the cigarette starter works out to about $1.3 million per person. qualcomm has scored another victory over apple, gaining a ban on sales of some iphone models in germany. apple is infringing qualcomm intellectual property on an energy-saving feature. the devices will be available up to christmas as qualcomm would have to post a bond of about million -- $760 million to recover losses if the ruling is reversed. william lee still with us. we are pleased to bring you abby cohen. i want to get to your paper on the gilded age but all one to know your belief in this equity market. can you acquire shares this morning or dare i say, can you hold shares in the s&p 500 this

senator mike lee said i could not agree more with the president's decision. why do you think the president will listen to you and tomton approximate marco rubio and not rand paul and mike lee on this? >> tom cotton has been one of his most staunch foreign policy defenders. if you took a poll in the senate it would probably be somewhere close to 98-2. the two that you heard from this morning, i haven't heard anybody else that thinks this is a good idea. by the way, none of us want to leave troops in the middle east indefinitely. all of us want to bring the troops home. the question is, how do you do it? do you create a big problem by doing it in this precipitous way? there are only 2,000 americans there, but they're performing a crucial role of stabilizing, training and being a buffer between the turks and the kurds. so, you know, there may be one or two or three in the senate but i think the vast majority feel the same way i do. >> senator, before i let you go, got to ask you about that vote overnight by the senate to try to keep the government open. the house could take that up later today. are you confident that t

. >> joining me live, nbc news investigations reporter tom winter, nbc reporter cara lee and nbc legal analyst glen ke kerrshner. respond to what we just heard from president trump about cohen's sentencing. >> he can claim that prosecutors did this to embarrass him, but i didn't hear him claim that the judge in the southern district of new york who not only accepted this plea as being sort of factually supported by the evidence and then who himself announced that he credits this evidence that maybe the judge is trying to embarrass the president as well. i think what we have here, kristen, is we're focused on what we now i think can say confidently are two felonies that the president committed together with michael cohen. but, you know, i think we're forgetting that those aren't the only two crimes that arise out of this transaction. he also is guilty in my opinion as a former 30-year prosecutor of a conspiracy over and above those two campaign finance violations because he committed these crimes with others, with pecker it looks like potentially, an allen weisselberg and certainly cohe

think what happened in new york over the last several days is a turning point. >> carol lee, phil rucker and tom winter, you all blow my mind day after day. grateful to have you all here. >>> after the break, donald trump once described the trump family businesses as a red line for federal prosecutors. but it's those businesses and trump's associates who now represent a grave threat to the president. we'll take a closer look. >>> also, all things russia as one russian agent pleads guilty and agrees to cooperate with the government. the president's former national security adviser stays mum on his big lie about his contacts with russia. we'll bring those story to you. and the very public search for a new white house chief of staff from dream job to job no one sane would take. new reporting. stay with us. maria ramirez? hi. maria ramirez! mom! maria! maria ramirez... mcdonald's is committing 150 million dollars in tuition assistance, education, and career advising programs... prof: maria ramirez mom and dad: maria ramirez!!! to help more employees achieve their dreams. but he has plans today.ain.

world, new york, this is "squawk box. >> good morning, i am joe kernen along with melissa lee and wilfred frost and tomibutor for how many years >> five years. >> powerpoint. >> you don't know how much he contributed. >> joe, turnover, cnbc contributor and you are going to be here at noon as well, right on cnbc. >> i am on the halfti"halftime report," yes >> i know you watch. >> if i don't watch, i dvr it. >> we had some fantastic interviews lately. >> yes >> scott does a great job. >> i call scott the bob acosta is the business of the economy >> anyway -- you have been to his house, right >> i have not. >> oh, you have not. >> anyway. futures right now, friends get to go over there >> i have been >> and you aapparently >> are you implying that we are not friends? >> i am not sure >> you adid you invite joe on t show, will >> great weekend awesome book >> beautiful >> treasury yields right now, we love these >> things are very attractive. >> the two-yr. and put in $10,000 you will get $250 that's exciting. >>> three big stories for you, one, come back from the recent ages, the dow is at 871 point turn

tom macaque. in the last three months we've had our flag stripped twice. once expressed lee from italian pressure to the panamanian maritime authority most recently we've had a trumped. waste profiteering legal process started in catania sicily and it's part of a longer two year smear campaign not just of ourselves but of the whole search and rescue. community if you'd like to refer to it as such all of it attempting to switch the focus onto os away from all noble who are at present drowning at sea european union has something called chaos which is a comprehensive european asylum system. at present there is something called the dublin regulation that dictates that every order nation is responsible for everybody who arrives there the preamble to creating math with the border states take their. migration very seriously consequently it is left room for populist and right wing politicians to create and still fear and use what is arguably not of migration crisis european commission as admitted it's as much. to create fear. the one hundred thousand people crossing the mediterranea

tom de kock. in the last three months we've had our flag stripped twice. once expressed lee from italian pressure to the panamanian maritime authority most recently we've had a trumped up. waste profiteering legal process started in catania sicily and it's part of a longer two year smear campaign not just of ourselves but of the whole search and rescue. community if you'd like to refer to it as such all of it attempting to switch the focus onto us away from all the bull who are at present drowning at sea and you know from the italian perspective they're trying to control illegal migration to europe that's the perspective they're putting so how are they going to avoid returning these migrants back to libya and the other countries that they're traveling from the european union has something called k s which is a comprehensive european the asylum system. at present there is something called the dublin regulation that dictates that every border nation is responsible for everybody who arrives there in the preamble to creating madness that border states take their. migration very

william: general lee and seminole -- senator blumenthal, tom grateful for the chance participate. theg comparative study with 4 -- with a focus on the european union and the focus on the u.s. systems from's 1975 to 1976. i was a research assistant under senator fell apart. i saw firsthand -- senator up heart -- phillip heart. why compare the experience? first, they are the most influential jurisdictions in setting global standards for the treatment of anti-competitive behavior. the u.s. relationship with the european union is significant, the most bilateral relationship that the u.s. has, and the european union has become the lead is jurisdiction of the world -- leading jurisdiction of the world, all reasons to perform this comparison. i want to focus on three features to provide a framework for our conversation about how the two systems relate to each other. i would like to talk about about goals, the legal framework, and current enforcement policy, and about process. not giving you my views, the views of the competition and markets authority. first, the question of goals. --sena

tom. here's another anniversary to talk about. it's been 40 years since jamie leet the set as jamie lee's character picked up right where the orange left off. >> i prayed every night that he would escape. >> i'm standing on the movie set of a movie i made 40 years ago. she came back and so did he. four decades after the evil mass murderer michael myers first terrified her in the original "halloween." in the film meyers goes on another murder spree but this r. but this is a true reboot and those other storylines have been wiped out. >> i waited for him. the 1978 laurie was meek but she's kind of superhero this time. nowadays we have wonder women. even linda hamilton in terminator. you're going to see me in a tank top in this movie. i will not have her arms. just letting you know now. if you do a side by side of me and linda hamilton, it's not going to happen. >> do you embrace that moniker of scream queen? >> every text or comment someone would do on social media they'd go yeah, queen. at some a bucket list moments having a yes queen with jamie lee curtis. iit. ther

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tom? >> matt gutman with those new developments tonight. thank you. >>> we turn now to the death of a sond child in u.s. custody the mother of 8-year-old fill lee pay alonzo-gomez arjing authorities to return his body after he died of an apparent illness of christmas eve. facing heavy backlash. homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen traveler to the border tomorrow. >>> and there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this thursday. the chaotic confrontation. a new york city police officer fending off several attackers inside the subway. one of them falling object the tracks. what that officer said today about ending the standoff. >>> plus, the tragedy at a major tourist destination. authorities investigating after a teen falls 700 feet to her death at a famous overlook. >>> and the dangerous malfunction. take a look at this. drivers with no warning as a train blows through. how did this happen? stay with us. how did this happen? stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. h

lee and terry mcinerney, and finally the waiver came through. she arrived last night and mom is here with her son today. we're live in oakland. tom jensen, nbc bay pairia news. >> all right. thank you very much, tom. >>> happening right now, are you headed over the river and to the woods to grappled ma's house soon? this is sfo. are you won't get there this way. arriving flights are delayed about two hours on average which is nothing compared to the problems at london's gatwick airport. that's where drones are causing a complete shutdown. nbc's kelly cobiella reports from london where thousands of passengers were deraid, diverted or stuck on planes today. >> reporter: this morning planes are grounded, passengers stranded. one of europe's busiest airports, london gatwick, closed for hours. airport staff first spotted a drone flying close to the runway last night. >> since then the drone has appeared and disappeared and appeared and disappeared. >> reporter: more than 6,000 passengers have been diverted. families waiting for loved ones arriving for the holiday are frustrated. >> there's a drone in the airspace and the plane could b

lee. in music the great aretha franklin the queen of soul at 76. roy clark as did hue. legendary authors and writers. phillip roth. tom wolf and neil dock simon.steven hawking. and microsoft cofounder paul allen who left us at 65. winny autoracing icon. and the great silver fox of nascar. david pierceson. preacher billy graham gone at age 99. also remember the loss of anthony bourdain. this past year. took his own life at age 61. and the global reaction to the loss of this cook, this chef. this story teller. this traveler. i think surprised a lot of people. farewell. >>> all of which somehow brings us to this moment. number one on the list. this year's list of the most is topped by. bob mueller. robert s. mueller. swan. robert swan mueller the third. he still holds all the cards and for a lot of americans represents the hope that will get the truth about how the election shook out. who chose this president. if there was any influence from another foreign power. robert mueller this year in contrast to last year has been maligned by the commander in chief on a near daily basis from his twitter feed and surrogates. >> there was no collusion. it w

lee. in music we lost the great aretha franklin, the queen of soul, at 76. roy clark left us. legendary authors and writers phillip roth, the great toml "doc" simon. the designer kate spade. science and technology legend stephen hawking and microsoft paul allen who left us way too young at 65. winnie mandela and u.n. schedule kofi annan at 80. auto racing icons dan gurney and the greatest silver fox of nascar, david pearson. preacher billy graham gone at the age of 99. also, remember the loss of anthony bourdain this past year. took his own life at the age of 61, and the global reaction to the loss of this cook, this chef, this storyteller, this traveller, i think surprised a lot of people. farewell. >> all of which somehow brings us to this moment, number one on our list. this year's list of the most is topped by -- >> bob mueller. >> robert mueller. >> mueller. >> bob mueller. >> robert s. mueller. >> "s" stands for swan. robert swan mueller iii. >> he still holds all the cards and he still for a lot of americans represents all the hope that will get the truth about how our election shook out. who chose this president. if there was

tom and i read them to you. i get that. digest it a little bit. if more comes we'll be back to you. let me bring in the political side of this discussion, carol lee, cornell belcher. and danielle pletka. welcome all. let's talk about the new things we learned today, carol. and the reason i say this is there's new pieces of actual information. number one, the government stated for a fact that the president directed michael cohen to pay off these women. okay. there's always been, there's no more ambiguity there. that is a fact. the two big parts of the mueller investigation, i can pull them both. we have them. i'm going to put up these quotes from the mueller -- this is the mueller sentencing memo. cohen provided the special counsel with useful information with certain russian matters by virtue of his regular contact with company executives in the campaign, company is always trump organization in this case. cohen described the circumstances of preparing and circulating his response to the congressional inquiries while continuing to set responsibility for those false statements contained. we know the obstruction of justice charge is being pursued an