this is "bulls & bears" and i'm david asman joining me on the panel feathers and moraga gary smith and john burnett. joe biden telling reporters earlier today he's not worried about bloomberg entering the race calling the former mayor a solid guy but bernie sanders elizabeth warren is wasting no time slamming the new york city mayor. sanders fired off a fund-raising e-mail saying america doesn't need another alien or using his wealth again in his words to buy an election and elizabeth warren doubling down on the message. listen. >> i don't think big money ought to be able to buy our actions and that's true whether we are talking about leaners for corporate executives defund packs or big lobbyists. we need a government that works for the people. david: if lindbergh designs he's running how much does this change the race john? >> i think oeste ball mayor bloomberg should stop questioning the risk of running in the democratic primary. i think there's a lane for him. zero when you look at capitalism racism and sexism all of its guns to which lane is a going to take? david: how about prospe

there are several ways to do that. >> gary smith delighted to have you on the show in size.nsparency in prices can be transformational but my question is, i had a minor surgery about two years ago. isn't most of the cost that i am billed, the doctors time and experience is that going to be out there also like hey this is what i build per procedure, per hour or whatever and will i be able to compare that from doctor to doctor? is and that the real stumbling block? >> area and let you said that. there is part of the transparency that's being proposed today. i have to disappoint you and say we are not thinking his much of that dollars you think we are. a lot of this is bureaucratic and administrative costs. >> a former fda advisers reportedly calling an end to lasik eye surgery. how worried should people be particularly those who have received a? >> i'm very disturbed his coming out and saying that an i'll tell you why. we are talking about procedure that i don't recommend that my patients get this but the site is five to 10% and that's the same with contact lenses. if you wear

asman joining me on the panel we have jonathan hoenig, christina partsinevelos, and liz peek and gary b. smith from florida. so the previously undisclosed meeting between the president, zuckerberg and facebook board member named peter tiel reportedly taking place last month when zuckerberg was in washington testifying before congress about-face about facebook, amid anti-trust scrutiny facebook is going on a charm offense with republican lawmakers and now, mark zuckerberg and one of facebook's board members, a major trump donor had a secret dinner with trump. this is corruption, plain and simple. this is how the government keeps working for corporations and the wealthy and the well-connected it's no wonder the companies like facebook have been allowed to consolidate economic and political power without any real accountability. jonathan does she have a point? >> david for elizabeth warren, billionaires are corrupt, everything about them is corrupt they steal, they cheat, they exploit and despite the fact these two men are tremendous businessmen, you'd think it's in the presidents interest to mee

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. >> charles: gary b smith, but 15 years ago a guy told me a word called parabolic. ctly like that parabolic, it was 15 or 17 years ago. they were the first person i heard views that were dissociated to stock market where it goes straight up. are we in that environment right now? >> it's funny you say that, charles. i was just looking at the charts before we came on and it does kind of look like that. it has that curve forages seems to go straight up. but battling that you made one good point when you said three weeks ago, a lot of these big fund managers were in cash. the second item i'd like to say is there is about 5 trillion cash in money market sitting there so the average investor is still in cash. the final thing was, the other thing when you set about three weeks ago, i thought you were going to say all these fund managers and it was forecasting a recession. now it looks like we are going to avoid any kind of recession. not talk has gone away. the market does feel a little frothy. i will grant you that. as john and francis point out there is so much ballast be

gary b. smith?to coty for $600 million. it is amazing, fascinating, whatever you want to call it, in this day and age a social media influencer and god bless her, she's worked hard at that, is now a billionaire. it's amazing. maria: great point. james, what are you looking at? >> we saw the footage earlier, deandre hopkins, the houston texans player, giving the football to his mom. i want to assure my mom that if i had ever earned a game ball at any level of athletic competition, i would have given it to her. maria: very nice, james. dagen? what's on your mind? >> i would have given my life for my mother, may she rest in peace. to my daddy-o, here's the article you were telling everybody about, that the "wall street journal" writes venice's flood guardian under water. how the city could have been saved from the flooding but bureaucracy and corruption prevented these gates from being implemented before venice flooded recently. dad, you are so smart and i love you so much. maria: he knew it first. bec

with us on the market panel, gary b. smith where he is president. gary, fox news contributor. since you're here in pennsylvania with me, i will start with you. jackie went through a lot of issues, but what is driving this in your view, more fed, china, more earnses. what are you looking at? >> fed cuts, tax cuts have a role, connell. earnings growth continues to be solid. it hasn't been great this year. there is talk there is reacceleration of earnings growth next year. rob, markets hitting all time highs, it is expensive. on a p-e basis it is really not that expensive. connell: gary, we'll get political in pennsylvania here today. let me ask you about it from that perspective. how much does the record stock market help the president? or is it not as simple as that as we look forward to a year from the election? >> if you think, connell, that the record stock market is kind of a reflection of the economy, it helps a great deal. when people come to vote, the vast majority of people care about really three things. do they have a job, are they making money? for most -- connell: g

we will get back to that issue and bring in gary b. smithre generally. you can comment on that as well. i think the trade story continues to be the big one. the white house not commenting about this reuters report on phase one maybe being pushed off. every day of the week, we get something on this and today, it's maybe that things have hit a snag or something worse. what's your read? >> yeah. you know, it's always the latest tweet, latest comment. i think it's more broad than that. i think we just made all-time highs on the dow. i think this is normal profit taking. i think you would have seen this kind of move yesterday, today or tomorrow regardless of what was leaked on trade or what happened with the impeachment hearings. connell: you are probably right about that. context is always important, because we do "after the bell" every day, you have been on with us a bunch, every single day, it's record this, record that, record after record. at some point you have to pull back a little bit but on impeachment again, the calculation's always bee

♪ maria: big show this morning, joining the conversation dagen mcdowell, the group president, gary b. smithall of xi jinping and china trade deal, i thought it was interesting that the president of china came out on international form and we want to work on phase 1 agreement on the basis of mutual respect and equality, your reaction.

asman joining me on the panel we have jonathan hoenig, christina partsinevelos, and liz peek and gary b. smithusly undisclosed meeting between the president, zuckerberg and facebook board member named peter tiel reportedly taking place last month when zuckerberg was in washington testifying before congress about-face