did you want susan bernstein dead?t at the end no. >> there was no way in hell i was ever going to go through with this and hurt susan. >> reporter: while out on bail ira and kelly agreed to sit down with "dateline." they shared with us how this whole murder-for-hire plot got started. for ira it was out of desperation. >> things had reached a horrible point. >> reporter: ira had a secret. he'd been stealing from an insurance company, overbilling for medical services. and he says his wife susan knew it. did you feel like susan was trying to blackmail you in any way? >> she was trying to blackmail me in every way. she would look at me and she would say, listen, i have broken into your e-mails. i have printed out and recorded all of your business dealings, and i'm telling you now if you don't give me everything i want, i'm going to the prosecutor and i'm going to expose you for everything and try to put you in jail. >> reporter: remember, ira recorded susan threatening him. >> don't bother coming back! you're going to [ b

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it sure felt like an opportunity, right until i saw why costco got hit bernstein, good research firm, downgraded the stock from holds, in other words they missed a lot of the move, to sell in a devastating piece that read so negatively that it could talk even the most optimisticbull out of buying this costco dip. have you had their crab dip? anyway, listen to this litany of all about costco first, bernstein is worried the company may be approaching peak club counts, peak members per club and peak revenue per member once costco hits the saturation rate, those numbers could start to deteriorate second, they mention a possible downturn catalyst. they never really say -- never really spell out what it is. costco does tend to thrive in a weaker economy third, potential competition finally, they argue costco's expansion into china may not go as well as many people expect. or as the piece was titled, cost, remember, the symbol, cost rational exuberance downgrading to underperform on u.s. saturation, competition, and a slow boat to china even worse, the bears lodging is backed up by charts an

, jude bernstein portfolio strategist -- richard bernstein portfolio strategist.io strategist. ♪ david: welcome to "bloomberg daybreak" on this thursday, september 12. alix: here's every thing you need to know at this hour. ecb president mario draghi gets his way. the ecb will restart quantitative easing, cutting its deposit rate facility. david: the united states and china are showing each other some goodwill as they prepare to resume trade talks. president trump has okayed a two-week delay on new tariffs aimed at chinese goods, and china may restart imports of u.s. soybeans and p and saudi will keep overdoing supply cuts. the new oil minister spoke in abu dhabi. nobody has ever been as transparent as this. [applause] club raised direct almost $1.4 billion is the fifth largest ipo in the u.s. this year. the stock begins trading today on nasdaq. alix: no supercool retainers like i had. in the markets, this is pure and simple ecb qed trade in the market. you have the euro moving significantly lower, down 0.4%. at one point, italian btp's hitting a record low of zer

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fromus now, kathy fisher bernstein. we have a little bit to talk about.urasia group. let me cut through the .xcellence of your mitch ramen what did he say about what was yesterday?frankfurt >> certainly the view from eurasia group on this is there is no surprise that you would see the european central bank act in this way. from a politics first perspective, mario's move takes political weight off of christine lagarde as he sets up 2020, looking at the global economy write large. -- writ large. tom: trading range august with a huge bull market breakout. draghi actions of mario and others, including the chinese news this morning, does it reaffirm a bull market? >> i would not call it a bull market. we are still in a long-term bull market. investors know the economy has slowed down. there has been a significant deterioration in the global economy. trade is having an impact. we still don't see a recession. growth economic environment. these signs are having a positive impact. as you are managing money, whiplash is to be expected. the market is reacting quickl

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carl bernstein of watergate fame says the whistleblower complaint contains hints of where the doj is going and down to get hope to president supporters. >> william barr is trying to deliver and other reporters from other sources to deliver that this has all been a deep state conspiracy just like donald trump alleges. shannon: we have reaction to the week's news, jordan of ohio, good to have you with us. carl bernstein in making that statement i wonder if he's referring to what we expect from the inspector general horowitz or us attorney durum. he didn't seem to say it in a positive way like we will get details about this. do you think that is what he is referring to? >> you could make the argument the democrats tried to get in front of what william barr and john durum will have in their investigation. what william barr said the first time this happened, he laid out clear there was a failure of leadership in the operation lines of the fbi. he said it took place, there was basis for his concern and use the key terms carry term, unauthorized surveillance and political surveillance and h

but you know this is reaching pure parody when cnn trotz out karl bernstein to say for the 400th timealling apart. imagine leading with karl bernstein the food arrives late at the restaurant this is worse than watergate. his iphone charger isn't working this is worse than watergate. no dairy creamer, this is worse than watergate. does he get royalties every time he says that? this is one of the signs falling apart. the media's hair catches on fire too early. we get so jade. we don't trust them anymore. i don't believe anything anymore. >> jesse: what was that conversation with medvedev barack obama caught on the hot mic just give me more flexibility until after the election against romney and he says yes, i will transmit that to vladimir. i wonder what that issue was. no interest in that. >> dana: basically thrusts to the forefront two basic issues that the democrats have been trying to stave off. the first one is pelosi has been trying to hold off her caucus to and say we don't need -- she is like i'm not for impeachment. she sends a letter then yesterday because i do think they jump

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. >> altria not the only buzz kill costco also cut after the downgrade from bernstein to underperformm market perform. they say retailer could be facing membership exhaustion and vulnerable in the economic downturn. >> that could be the case but you haven't seen in the data the memberships are a huge driver there is no significant drop off. maybe bernstein is ahead of the curve and they do thoughtful research but i push back say into earnings you buy on the dip. carter werth was on it earlier this was a stock held back in the spring when the mechanic went lower the knock actually is valuation. but i think you buy it on the dip. >> up 42 this year not bad. >> i agree you still have to buy. i don't know about the membership exhaustion. when people have a membership they seem to reup and renew at alarmingly high rates. >> but does membership have to grow to sustain this. >> i don't think it does the stock is as you said up 41%. the technical level is 282 the 50-day moving average. if it breaks there maybe the story changed. >> it's the recurring nature of that membership model is why is

i'm robin bernstein, the new ambassador to the dominican republic. >> bernstein is a founding membermar-a-lago and a campaign donor. she was also donald trump's long-time insurance agent. and according to stapleton -- >> he asked two other members to be ambassadors, and they turned him down for personal or health reasons. and then we have a fourth one, her name is lana marks. she's a couture handbag designer. >> president trump nominated marks as ambassador to her native south africa. presidents rewarding their supporters with jobs is nothing new. it goes back as far as the founding fathers. but donald trump promised ethics reform, then proceeded to nominate campaign donors to ambassadorships. and nominating mar-a-lago members takes it one step further. that isn't just rewarding people who put money into donald trump's campaign, it's actively rewarding people who are putting money into donald trump's pocket. >> i mean, if i ever had the chance to talk to the president of the united states, i certainly would ask him why he has tapped these mar-a-lago members for these types of positio

let's get to the bottom line with carl bernstein, also jill lockhart, a cnn commentator. us the 30,000 foot view of what happened here yesterday. >> i think that perhaps we have a new dynamic and some ground is shifting. two things have happened. one, that nancy pelosi now is the face of the democratic party, not the candidates, not warren, not biden, but for the next few months, nancy pelosi, a very formidable opponent of president nixon is really going to be the personification of the democrats and their constitutional argument that we have a corrupt president who has admitted his own corruption of the electoral process, who has taken the country somewhere where it has never been before, in encouraging a foreign power to undermine our system of free elections in this country. and it seems to me, even by the reaction of the senate yesterday, in finally agreeing to a resolution joined by democrats that there's recognition on the republican side in private that the president himself has set up this mudslide that he is now covered in himself, along with mr. giuliani, and it

back with asha, gloria, and joining us, political legend carl bernstein. first of all, your reaction to this u.s. special envoy to ukraine resigning, does it surprise you? i mean, the fact is he was named in the whistleblower complaint, and he was the one who was in contact apparently with rudy giuliani and put giuliani in touch with zelensky adviser. >> we need to know more about the circumstances and doubtless he's going to be subpoenaed in the impeachment investigation. but i think we can start from the premise that what we're seeing once again is that donald trump is toxic. as people who have done business with him know, as one security official after another who worked closely with trump has come to recognize. now if you read the whistleblower's complaint carefully, you'll see how volker became involved in the middle of all this through giuliani, whether or not he was an innocent bystander or an active participant in trying to hijack an american election through foreign, you know, foreign intervention in our democratic election process we'll have to w

target $9s 49 the shares fell an.ract 3/4 general was downgraded to market perform from outperform at bernsteine analyst cites less certainty on future sales and earnings gswth. the price target is $145.ck the sellth 2% to 157.09. atlrit was ground dwraud the piperafteror increasing regul skrout i of you will juul as mg we s the potential m are phillip morris. the price farther is $49. despite the ground grade wasas fraction to 4.24. >> stale ahead holiday hiring companiesoreed but where will they find them? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> for years, the growth engine of the fast food industry has been its food. but now you can add artificial intelligence and voice technology, which is what mcdonald's is doing. today the burger cha made a new high-tech investment. but its.hares fell 3.5%. kait rogers has more. >> mcdonald's may be f at food giant. but it's leaning more into technology. the company is acquiring a print y start upusinl artificial intelligence to understand drive through orders. eventsly it may be applied to the mobile appse appear -order kiosks. this is the third technology deal this year. after the

is jared bernstein, senior fellow at the center for budget and policy priorities and former economicdent joe biden. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. gerry: let's talk about the economic impacts of this trade war. so far we've seen it in the markets particularly, market every time -- especially every time the rhetoric gets ramped up, react, doesn't like it. has there been actually much direct impact on the american economy from this trade war so far? because the economy seems to be in pretty good shape. >> there hasn't been a ton, but there's been some. is so our manufacturing sector has actually been contracting if you look at real output in manufacturing, that's been going down for about six or seven months. so that's one indicator. but beyond that, you've seen some impact on consumer prices, but it's very marginal, and there's all these other moving parts that are holding inflation way down. i think the broad estimate is at this point the trade war's costing u.s. consumers something around $500 a year which isn't nothing, but if it escalates, it'll be a lot more. gerry: presi

bernstein, 30 hong kong dollars on its superior growth returns.makes budweiser asia the highest quality consumer stock in china. based on the 2020 at beta multiple -- even top multiple, it makes the stock the second-most expensive beer name in the world. boon for thee is a hong kong exchange after a summer drought when it comes to ipo's. here is what the ceo had to say about listing in the city. >> we saw a lot of very enthusiastic reactions of investors and that is why we decided to do the listing. these are challenging times in hong kong but we are very confident that there is a strong foundation. we are very optimistic with a bright future. optimism from the budweiser asia-pacific ceo. china, southth korea. what type of growth potential is expected? listing, the budweiser asia ceo of the company will focus on growth, admission that was made more streamlined after the sale of its high-growth but low-margin australian -- high-margin, low growth australian. ahead, bloomberg intelligence is calculating 50% inwth in 2020 -- 15% growth 2020. 46%eiser

we begin with shares of costco rperform from un market perform at bernstein.he analyst says that investors are overpaying for the quality of earnings, dividends and defensiveness. price target $230 that stock fell1.5% to close at 287. o .83. g u.s. steund downgraded to underfrrm to outperform analyst speaking steel prices staying weak and therefore there compan caw under pressure. the price target there $9. the stock down 11% to 11.06. >>> brown foremanen was do graded to underperform from inline at every kor isa, citing the stovaluation, the price target is 60. the stock fell afraction to 64.30. coverage of i don't know meat itiatewood overweight rating at bark clay. the company says beyond meat isd well positio for the future. the price farther is $185. the shares rose a fraction to 154.92. >>> still ahead, the growth in gaming and appls strategy to become a bigger player in that industry. t ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ a the house has passed short-term spending bill preventing a government shutdown at the end of the month. th measure gives lawmakers until thanksgiving to pass m

that is according to a report from bernstein. the only bright spot where sales still grew.e biggest producer. the opening index, almost exactly an hour from now. futures are pointing slightly higher. a big drop yesterday. >> as you said, a slightly stronger start but the sentiment remains weak. the next level on the downside will be the most recent. hold,ay's move does not aboutns up levels at 10,600. you have more pressure building up. become we print has ak. they are not ready to pay the premium that they were paying early on. there is no growth. depreciated, probably the silver lining is for the technology companies and the export oriented pharma companies. rishaad: let's look at one of the banks there. concerns about bad debt, nonperforming loans. taking a knife to target prices on yes bank giving them a no essentially. what is the outlook? prices a yearrget , 360.n yes bank drop.n see how the morgan stanley has gone underweight. fromhave dropped the price 95 to 55 on liquidity concerns. rishaad: thank you very much. india. stay in the country's longest growth slump. wh

. >> my name is harry bernstein. i'm a faculty member at city college. i would like to provide context in the subsequent eir of the balboa reservoir project. the words significant, unavoidable impact. impacts on the college students, faculty and staff, students at the adjacent high school and students in the childcare programme at the adjacent multiuse building. so these to topics, noise, qualy and transportation came up before the planning commission at their meeting in august and this was the context i want to mention. the mayor has sought to streamline development in, housg development in san francisco. so she is trying t trying to hal factors that are considered in sequa to reduce the required mitigation. so besides secondary ones like cultural and they include air quality and transportation. the city is trading no trying no consider and they've done that with parking. so that's where we're going to make, just to save months, save some dollars but to give the public and the public health less opportunity, less consideration. separate topic, the descr

trust and city private bank and stanford bernstein. she's also the chief financial officer for city proof. finally we welcome the testimony of doctor lisa cook and associate professor as part of economics at the jane madison college at michigan state university. she served as president of the national economic association from 2015 to 2000 and and currently serves as co-director of the american economic association summer training program. prior to this academic appointment of among faculty and the universal school of government. she was also the deputy director for african research for the center of international development and harvard university. wow! a huge reminder that the testimony will be limited to five minutes. without objection your written statement will be part of the record. the witnesses are reminded to turn on your microphone and the three lights in front of you. green means go, yellow means wrap up and red means stop. men -- were going to first art with miss kijakazi and you are now recognized for five minutes to give

. -- bernstein numbers.uly than relative to june because you have the end of the report for the company to deliver as much as they could as they were putting finishing touches on second-or numbers. you also had a situation where they have dwindling incentives here in the u.s. markets. that sort of good contribute to the july numbers being a little bit softer than they were on a sequential basis. when we have seen other markets were subsidies pullback and sales soften, do they rebound? my the consumer market come back more strongly? >> you will have the product to make a possibility. you have a portion of that is coming out. audi ramping up production. jaguar getting going. volkswagen is going to have this really ambitious offensive over the coming years. you mentioned general motors and ford. it is an industrywide phenomenon. but there is a concern you hear from the executives after they are done i think coming about whether if they build it, the consumer will come. this is something different for the consum

this kind of valuation a significant writedown or some analysts out with numbers today about -- bernsteink at what they have to take. >> periodically people have to take losses. periodically >> yeah. >> part of the game. >> yeah, it is part of the game. the question is how does it impact vision fund too we did speak to massa last march. a big fan of the we company. he wanted to buy more. he told us during the interview, mo massa, wanted to buy more but the saudis had veto power, so they did a deal for another few billion at the high valuation of $47 billion. here is what massa had to say last march about his overall view of the business model. >> they're growing so quickly, and they're investing into the capex. but it is recurring revenue, like a subscription. you know the subscription of magazines or newspaper and now netflix. netflix is still losing money, but the value of the company is tremendous compared to other media companies. >> i do think that the one saving grace here is that when i check on weworks, a lot of them are filled it is not -- it is not like they have nothing it is j

remember, apple is going to include one year of the streaming service with new hardware purchases bernsteinstrategy extremely clever, saying apple tv plus could reach 200 million apple customers in the first year hall is concerned that free trial will impact the company's bottom line, specifically that apple's method of accounting for the bundle moves revenue from hardware to services, and that he says isn't good news for hardware average selling prices and margins in high sales quarters, like the critical holiday quarter coming up. hall said we could see the eps hit by 16% in q1, due to this accounting method. he says cash flow should be unchanged. hall cut the price target from 187 to 165 that's the lowest of major wall street banks, fifth lowest of all analysts covering apple. apple shares lower this morning. the stock soared this year, skyrocketing 40%, surging within 50% from the low in early january. guys, back to you. >> rod hall continues to frustrate those apple laws >>> when we come back, mega contracts, rise in ratings, big business of the nfl. >>> will an totonio brown play sund

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report says it may launch a new low cost iphone in the spring let's talk about it with tony at bu bernsteinto you, are they folding in trying to hide or mitigate the tariff impact with these product launches next week at all >> well, we'll have to see on pricing. you know, our suspicion is that apple will largely hold pricing firm and the good news for apple that component prices have come down dramatically over the last year by holding prices firm and not increasing the storage or memory content in the devices, that can give them an extra profitability cushion to potentially offset some or all of the tariff impact >> so, is the cost of my new iphone going to go up? >> i don't think so. typically what would have happened, kelly, is you would have gotten more storage for the same price but your base cost, i think, will be the same >> steve, what is your expectation and how important is this event for apple, especially when they don't even report iphone sales any more. >> i think what is really important to look at when these tariffs hit when they are expected to hit the iphone in october coz

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. >> bernstein this morning. they take costco to a cell >> i don't believe it. >> it is unamerican. i am talking about sap racing. u.s. saturation. they're talking international delays david, the most important thing they are talking about is membership exhaustion. >> exhaustion. >> i am not a member yet. >> still, there is still one person now, david, the reason i have a problem with this is because valuation downgrades tend to come back to haunt you, you downgrade cost core rational slow bo et to china. what happens if they get it right, you find yourself fighting at this time whole way. i'm thinking about netflix kind of fought it. >> all the way. >> right. >> over the last year, if he's continuing to be negative. he se actually right which is not performa. >> brand-new fletcher. to me, brandon fletcher says sell costco and i think he could be right today. >> and that will be it >> maybe so. unless he knows something, like roku is having two down days >> is it highly valued >> costco is probably the most in a group probably the highest of the large cap itself, versus dollar gener

bernstein had a very interesting paper out this morning, very am deck academic, and their conclusion price, the decline in fedex stock price does not indicate a recession risk in the u.s. is higher specifically the decline in the stock price is not indicative that the recession risk is necessarily higher and that the impact on fedex from the stock price decline is due to what they call idiosyncratic issues they put that in quotation marks. they talk about elevated levels of capital spending, poor investments, stuff we haven't talked about, stock specific stuff. i think it is important conclusion because this is a big belief on wall street, fedex is the canary in the coal mine overall. kudos to bernstein on this q-3 earnings, we're not quite in the middle of it it has started we had eight companies that reported so far. autozone, car max, both of them beat, though autozone looks like they might have had an extra week in there that helped them out here down slightly, fractionally higher here for car max. eight companies reporting. so far the numbers are slightly negative for the third

retailer costco, according to analysts at bernstein downgraded shares to the wholesale giant to underperformluation and growth concerns both in the u.s. and abroad. the stock is down 1.7%. roku fighting back against new competition out of comcast and facebook, new $30 roku express is 10% smaller than the current model and $99 roku ultra which will let users personalize their remote. roku shares are trading up. the first vehicle in the elon musk empire, insurance institute highway top safety award, shares up 1.2%. the richest man in the world plans to make amazon a clean company. obama epa chief gina mccarthy joins liz next on the on-line retailer's plans to go green. "the claman countdown" is coming right back. liz: the tiny little single item you ordered that shows up in a huge amazon box with plastic packaging in less than 24 hours? ceo jeff bezos has something to say about the environmental footprint his company leaves as it delivers those packages every single day. today in washington, d.c. he got before these cameras and pledged that amazon will be carbon neutral by 2040 saying the comp

dana bash with me erin the studio and van jones and cnn political analysts david gergen and carl bernstein. dana, let me start with you. it really does seem that president trump thinks he did not do anything wrong here and he doesn't understand why anybody is objecting to this. >> yeah, which i think is classic trump, vintage trump, right, that this is the way he operates. and he has been doing so for so many years. it is the code that michael cohen talked about. the difference now is that he's not a businessman in new york. he's the president of the united states. and that is why what we saw in black and white today, even though it was just a summary really not even a transcript, it is so jarring for so many people to see -- yes, the democrats are the ones coming at him and saying that publicly obviously going as far as saying we should start an impeachment inquiry. the republicans are lock step but there are some cracks in that. there are some cracks because it is hard to kind of brush aside what is right there when it comes to what is appropriate conduct for a president of the united st

. >> carl bernstein of watergate claim believes it whistleblower complaint contains hints to where the doj is going and it's bound to give hope to the president's supporters. >> barr is trying to deliver. i have the evidence that perhaps this has been a deep state conspiracy just like donald trump alleges. >> still, republican representatives join us live with reaction to the week's news. jim during ban of ohio and from texas. congressman jordan, i'll start with you. in making that statement, i wonder if he's referring to what we're expecting from detective horowitz or u.s. attorney durham. he didn't say it in a positive way like, hey, we'll get details and news about the deep state thing, it's sort of in quotes, deep state. is that what he's referring to? >> you can make the argument that the democrats are trying to get out in front of what bill barr and john durham are going to have in their investigation. bill barr said it first time he testified. he said there's a leadership of the upper echelon of the fbi. we know that's the case, we think of comey, mccabe, baker, struck, page. sp

then you have alex bernstein who won for "the marvelous mrs. maisel."y and had a message to share about her lineage and how she could be on that stage. >> to my mother, where are you? to my grandmother naji, they are im immigrants, holocaust survivors. my grandmother turned to a guard she turned to a guard and says what happens if i step out of line, he says i don't have the heart to shoot you and somebody will. she stepped out of line. for that i am here and my children are here. step out of line, ladies. step out of line. >> a poignant moment no doubt. >> wow. yeah, that was intense. now obviously there was a lot of buzz there was going to be no host. seemed like there were many hosts. how did it go? >> i know, like no host but then homer simpson starting off shows and he's gone. there was a very funny bit where you had ben stiller and bob newhart which was awesome. bob newhart is awesome. a lot of different jokes that aim came along, host ajacement, an emmy announcer, thomas linen, and he had one joke, presumably about felicity huffman, take a listen

and also joining us, former washington post journalist, karl bernstein is with me. shane, what is the very latest on this whistle blower complaint. it amazes me and shocks me congress still hasn't seen it. is this an ongoing act of -- >> there certainly is a very full effort by this administration and i think by this white house to block that whistle blower complaint from getting to congress. we reported this week in the post that the white house counsel has always gotten involved in this and it's safe to say they are considering what options they have to make sure this doesn't go to the congress because it is executive prif lemg or outside of the purview because the activity happened at the white house. but now this phone call that trump had with the ukrainian president, which seems to be at the center of this allegation, in that call reportedly he pressed the president of ukraine eight different times to investigate joe biden's son. here we have some very good reporters at "the wall street journal" an account of the president engaging in this kind of pressure on a

. >> i am mark bernstein. my wife and i live at 3318 california street with three kids age 2, 5 and 7. our home is directly across the street from the project. how the property in the surrounding areas traffic streets parking is developed will have a large impact on our family's life. we appreciate the city's need for housing. i imagine few of us would be so noble to be excited about losing open space and trees and vistas with more traffic and less parking and more noise and construction hassles in our neighborhood. nonetheless, we are not so naive to think the proposed growth can be restricted. you will likely authorize new homes, more traffic and more noise across from our home. we get that and will support you. i am here to ask the planning commission and city to work hard to balance competing interest. the city should not price interest in public transportation by restricting parks paces so much it makes the homes unliveable. to take away parking spaces to limit parking available and congesting the neighbo

all right, bernie sanders looked like leonard bernstein up there. watch.♪ >> we are spending twice as much per capita on health care as the canadians or any other major country on earth. >> it's america. >> but americans don't want to pay twice as much as other countries. >> laura: tom, he does like to do this a lot and it's quite interesting. we're having fun with bernie, but did he hit his peak in 2016? he's been replaced in the progressive lane, hasn't he? he's been edged out. >> absolutely. absolutely. i mean, bernie, this is the sort of, you know, bernie 2.0, it's just a crankier, louder version. he seems to be angry and shouting all the time. there are different models now. newer models, fresher models, more exciting models. bernie is staying true to himself for what it's worth, but it's the same story every time he steps on the debate stage. e >> mercedes, he does kind of look angry all the time. people say trump's angry. trump is actually in a really good mood. he fights back when he's hit. but he's having fun. but he's just -- he's the "get