yes, it is an exciting time for us at bridgestone., the number one ire, rubber manufacturer i the world. contributing to our new vision, which is to provide value for the customer as a sustainable solutions company in this broader new mobility system where fleet are taking more and more of a leading role so, of course, we'll continue to provide tires to companies, but we also want to be more relevant more relevant meaning also producing and delivering more solutions for more sustainable mobility, safer mobility, and it is also thanks to the access of data coming from a very vast customer base. yes, the future is in tires connected to the vehicles. >> talk to me about your supply issues we're seeing this across industries in the nearly post-covid economy as companies are struggling to bring everything in through the different choke points but in the rubber space you have a different challenge. a rubber pandemic due to some natural diseases affecting some of the rubber plants how are you doing getting the supplies in to get products out

. >> love your project, bridgestone. encourages people with disabilities to participate.philanthropic side bridgestone is doing a lot of things with the athletes they're a big supporter of the paralympic games and giving young, adaptive athletes an opportunity to experience sport no matter what their disability is and encourage them to choose their dreams. >> did you get that pb&j that you mentioned? >> every time. just like mom makes it. >> ryan, congratulations you gave us a hell of a show we appreciate it thr thank you for your time. >> i appreciate your time. >> we hope you will be with us here tomorrow night for "the news" week nights at 7:00 eastern on cnbc. right now, let the games begin >>> it is 5:00 a.m. in d.c the top five at 5:00 the white house weighing res restrictions on foreign travelers after the vaccinated and unvaccinated. >>> we will show you how far this rally has really come >>> retail traders robinhood shares double in days. >>> lost in the mail the white house hosting a big electric car shi

k. buster in kabul. laurie bridgestone, who said that it's the end of one phase of operations. he says, we haven't forgotten the people who still need to leave will continue to do everything we can to help them. nor have we forgotten the brave and decent people of dentist on they deserve to live in peace and security. think this is the message that the government would be wanting to put out, and they have done over the last 24 hours that they are continuing to both assist people beyond next tuesday who want to leave the country, but also to assist efforts in neighboring countries. to welcome refugees, people fleeing in fear for their lives into places like iran and pakistan on the british. sure or government. save it nearly 15000 people have been evacuated to the u. k. since mid august. but they're in the words of nick carter. the head of the armed forces they, they've done the a good job in the circumstances. well, there are some criticisms that more than a 1000 people who worked for the british on services are being left behind and questions about exactly how much assistance

that i've been mentioning they are really motivated to clean up the sport >> love your project, bridgestonelan >> i am going to lead more into the fill lan tlop pick slides. they're a big supporter of the paralympic games and giving young, adaptive athletes an opportunity to experience sport no matter what their disability is and encourage them to choose their dreams. >> did you get that pb&j that you mentioned? >> every time. just like mom makes it. >> ryan, congratulations you gave us a hell 1/2 diving we hope you're here week >>> he's going to stand alone in olympic history! the greatest olympic champion of all time. ♪ ♪ >>> a new spin on gold digger, as beach volleyballers from opposite corners of the planet reach for

sase and we have a lifestyle sneaker that we have on the market and then really proud to be a team bridgestoneadaptive athletes and that is in the parent of the paralympic games. helping the athletes have access, local programs, equipment, and training and so i'm so excited to watch these inspirational athletes in the coming weeks and really cheer them on. >> that is really nice. and that is a lot of money. and that is awesome. your career, you mentioned your footwear line. your career has been so much more than just about track, though. you, when you spoke up and took on, and you took on one of the biggest names in sports back in 2019, your own sponsor nike over how they were paying female athletes differently after child birth. you brought about real change when you stood up and you spoke out. i re-read through your op-ed this morning and i was just sitting there being struck with, yes, you created change, you had real impact afterward. but you didn't necessarily know going in that that would end up this way. were you scared to do that? >> i was terrified. for so long i had really just focus

. >> jim, i wanted to get your current take on grts bridgestone bio. >> yeah, tumors. go, not that one. brad in new york brad >> hi, jim thank you for taking my call >> of course >> boo-yah i have learned many things watching "mad money" >> thank you >> and i thank you >> thank you >> any question -- you're welcome. my question is about sofi. i bought back -- >> i don't understand why the stock is where it is i think it is doing a terrific job. think at $15 you buy the stock i just think you just go buy it. i need craig in california craig. >> hi, jim, a sunny boo-yah to you. >> thank you >> thank you for taking my call. last week you provided us with a nice little upside i wonder what you think about suppliers. >> if you do suppliers you have to do ge or raytheon i prefer to own boeing which at one point was down i think it is reversed i think boeing is the one to buy. that's it for the lightning round. >> the lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade >>> they say if it ain't broke, don't fix it why might some companies revamp their beloved brands cramer's highlig

outside of the pool, i'm really excited to do some really cool events with some of my partners, bridgestone being one of them. they're doing a lot of things to support young adaptive athletes to go and chase their dreams. they're donating $125,000 to help young adaptive athletes do that, and i'm excited to be a part of it. >> ryan murphy, it's great to meet you. congratulations on your victory. world champion, olympic champion, and champion sleeper. impressed with the sleep turn around. >> appreciate the time. >>> brianna. >> breaking overnight, two more police officers who defended the capitol have died by suicide. that makes a total of four officers who have died by suicide in the weeks and months since the attack. cnn's whitney why would is joining us now. whitney, this is terrible news. >> it is heartbreaking that the toll of that day continues to grow. what we know breaking overnight was that officer kyle defreitag, the d.c. department of police here in our city, took his own life in mid-july. he started with the department in 2006. also in july was the death by suicide of officer gun

among the names are bridgestone, keating and softbank. >> it will be hard to ignore the exposure to china'sr tory crackdown. we will look at the other japanese companies reporting. always great to have you with us. let's start off with softbank to get it out of the way. is the inscrutability of their portfolio a key concern for investors? >> softbank has become a black box. it is just impossible to know what the earnings are. even more fascinating is the fact that the earnings are completely detached or the share price reaction to earnings is completely detached to what the reports are on a quarterly basis. it really doesn't matter. people really want to see a buyback. that is the only thing that is left to keep the share price. they are going to push the share price up like they were so lost. again, given what has been going on in the ipo market and how strong technology has been, that big discount they have been hoping to close, it is not closing, it is widening. we consider softbank as not being investable. we do hold softbank in a portfolio. this is a big component of the index. they ar