. >> ron, last night i remember alfred e. newman on mad magazine, every time kaine had a shot, everything, the answer from pence was "what, me worry?" he was like alfred e. newman, he acted like it didn't happen, i don't have to talk about it. he was the king of deflection last night. it's an art and not useful perhaps to us but him. >> i don't know what else he would have done because some of the things donald trump has said over the last, well, the course of the election are really indefensible so there was no defending these things and i think mike pence was thinking ahead to his career and you notice even when he would defend donald trump he would do it without for the most part mentioning donald trump's name. he didn't -- there was no full-throated defense there. it was as if he didn't want any videotape of him to exist when he was talking about donald trump because i think he has a feeling that, you know, a few years from now when he wants to come back and take another run at this thing he doesn't want donald trump's stench al

. >> alfred e. newman. "squawk on the street" is next. >>> good tuesday morning, welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm ca the unofficial start of earnings season is upon us. alcoa reports this morning, along with headlines on oil, upgrades for cat, twitter and more. pounds under pressure although german business sentiment did hit a ten-year high. the samsung saga getting worse. galaxy note 7 smartphones permanently discontinued. how are the other players like apple being impacted? >>> we'll have the latest from twitter. we'll give you the latest on the continued talks with salesforce. >>> alcoa shares falling this morning. coming up we dig into that report and talk to klaus kleinfeld in a cnbc exclusive. >>> first up, samsung has permanently halted production of its troubled galaxy note 7 smartphone. the recall could cost as much as $17 billion. apple is poised to open at its highest level since december of last year. the stock is up 21% in the past three months. we're now on to a cycle where the replaceme

. >> alfred e. newman. next. >>> good tuesday morning, welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm ca the unofficial start of earnings season is upon us. alcoa reports this morning, along with headlines on oil, upgrades for cat, twitter and more.

alfred newman. every time cain had a shot, everything, the answer from pence was, what? me worr it is like alfred e. newman. he acted like it didn't happen or i don't have to worry about it. he was the king of deflection last night. >> i guess it is useful to him. i don't know what else he would have done. some of the things donald trump has said over the course of the election are indefensible. so there was no defending these things. and i think mike pence was thinking ahead to his career. and you notice even when he would defend donald trump, he would do it without, for the most part, mentioning donald trump's name. there was no full throated defense. it was if he didn't want any videotape to exist when he was talking about donald trump. i think he has a feeling a if you years from now when he wants to come back and take another run at it. he doesn't want donald trump's stench all over him. >> that's what i thought. what was the safer move for your guy mike pence to defend trump or attack hillary? the obvious answer, the safest thing is to attack hillary. one more shot at her won't hurt her much