the corner of darden our stiff tongue the oil sea and the region embassy in serbia ok and there's also the medium of carrying through to europe and this is they're all having all through to you or you will see in the next really in the upcoming really bored and and all sorts of people going home from asia where we see improvements there and well also of course really because we've in the meantime i was not going well by the resident if i can just not go where live is if you know it's going really well really show i'll tell you also the media representatives ours that we have it called the nation body also under my cabinet as the prime minister we will in parallel with media strategy work on resolving ad hoc issues that media have in serbia we've agreed to that as well we are doing that they meet once a month and they are already resolving issues if you want to you know i was my government is the first government to actually implement the open data policy we have we have we are doing that together like i mentioned earlier we have adopted the parliament has adopted law the law in the gov

the health of the consumer, i would assume some of that is informed by your work on the board of darden know you can't speak specifically to that, but what gives you confidence overall in the consumer now >> yeah, i don't think the consumer is listening to the noise that everybody else, that you hear on shutdowns and mueller investigations and trade wars i think right now their pocket, gas prices, their paychecks, jobs are all really, really good, continuing to be really good, so is consumer spending. that's what you're hearing from master card results from the holiday period if it continues, if the shutdown continues and people start, you know, feeling a different impact on their wallet, in their paycheck, if something changes with the mueller investigation, if we can't solve trade, you know, i think it could go the other way. right now, for the period we're in, i think the consumer will stay strong, hopefully they'll be able to carry us through, maybe the politicians and policy makers can get out of their own way and solve things >> great to get your thoughts. former walmart u.s. ceo.

charles: we've seen it with darden and other names.ith new blood the stock seems to go up with the right person. dennis, a session like today, we're off the highs by 100. we're up 130 points. feels like we're grappling a little bit. what would be the next big catalyst if you will for this market? we're still significantly under what had become support when the market put up fight? >> i, next big catalyst will be announcement from the fed that they are indeed agreeing with what mr. powell intimated on friday, the adjusted monetary base, the assets will not be run off. that will be the next important statement. it will be interesting to see what the chinese do tonight. whether they announce a large purchase of american agriculture. that will be another major circumstance. can we actually end this foolishness in washington and get the government back to work. charles: erin, catalyst? >> i, you know, i think what you have china trade is still hanging over. it is still causing a lot of fears. anytime that is really big in the headlines that

increase on the dollar tree side of things so the data favors starboard which fixed the underperforming darden, owner of olive oil they replaced the people, put new people and it took off however, the last time dollar tree reported back in november the whole story changed. sure the actual results weren't so hot they reported another disappointing number and weakness at yes, family dollar but this time i think there was a silver lining. as ceo gary philbin explained family dollar is turning the company has been renovating the underperforming stores and the ones that get remodeled are doing much better. listen to this >> from the very beginning we have said we needed to fix the stores and the confidence we have now, jim, with the renovations is where we said let's put our foot to the pedal and go for the renovations up to 1,000 next year. >> well, you have 8,000 so it could be a multiyear rollout of renovation and better numbers. >> well, we think so just not renovations i should say at least a minimum. let's shoot for 1,000 and do more if we can but i do see it being a multiyear trajectory i ne

the darden school, a child died but you ain't going to say a gunman came in and ran him boom in the head. i can go into the deep details of what is. but regardless you still, the parents, you let them know your child died same way you let your friends parent know your child on the street. but you not going to give the supreme details that he got sucked into -- you know what i mean? still delivering the same message. >> i think the difference is like, when somebody die in the war, you know, it's like you become a patriot. you know you're a hero. so when you know people send their kids off to the military and go to the war, that's like me to some people it's like an honor. i mean you know, if you die in the war then that's like an honorable death. i mean they got memorial stuff downtown. you go down there and see the names of the people that died. it's different when someone is killed on the street. >> what is special about this one? >> he didn't know -- >> a lot of people didn't like this war. when the veterans came back i guess they kinda felt almost like coming out of prison you know. y

fairly rigorous firm, jim, comes out with a fairly large report here, nothing on the likes of its dardenrs ago, where it went into actually telling them how to formulate the menu and make certain things but basically they want to potentially consider selling family dollar. i'm curious, given -- you followed this sector quite closely, jim, what your thoughts are. >> well, look, i -- look, with all due respect to starboard, i got to tell you, gary philbin is really doing a remarkable job. the last quarter was the beginning of what i regard as being the changeover of family dollar yes, maybe they did overpay. yes, there were problems at family dollar. yes, they were held up by the ftc for a year this is an outrage the man has finally got it right. i think the stock can get to 120 on its own do you know these guys want them to break the buck. that starboard says they not only get rid of family dollar, but start charging more. are you kidding me they source so well, whether from procter & gamble or from china. starboard does not know what it is doing >> okay. they would, i'm sure, take opposi

today, the staging area 15, the 90th birthday of doctor martin luther king jr., the 90th birthday of darden mark luther king junior. we are here for a time such as this. i think about today. i think about today. what happened in the house today. what happened in the house? steve king, the house condemned king's racist comments. 2019 on doctor king's birthday, 51 years after his death. if he took a picture, you think you are back in 1950, 1960. , 1940 even think about this moment in time today who is still dealing with issues of voting rights. voting rights, we just had a midterm in november, that is the question that i was asking when i was told to sit down. voter suppression. voter suppression is real. luscious name a couple of states, florida, georgia, texas, north dakota. today in 2019, we are still dealing with this issue on doctor king's birthday. issues of poverty remain. it is something that doctor king worked on with bobby kennedy. if both of those two giants had lived, if they had lived, it would've been an issue about poverty for all. trying to lift up the least of these. and now