. >> stevie, my uncle is not dick, grasso. how are you playing this? >> apple, there's too much going forward not to be a buyer of apple. you still have iphone 5 coming out. maybe the thought of an apple tv. >> do you sell it when the iphone 5 comes out? >> you know, i think you might get the chance to sell it. but the timing, michelle, is a little precarious. because you're going into christmas. everyone, all children, everyone on the face of this earth wanting an apple product. >> stephanie link? by the way, everybody weigh in on samsung as well which got hammered in overnight trade. is it overdone? stephanie, your thoughts on the big play from friday? >> i think from apple's point of view it's more kind of psychologically important versus any change to numbers in the near term. there's not going to be any change to revenues or to earnings or to even units of iphone or ipad based on this decision. but i do obviously think that it is a psychological positive. and now we can go back and focus on the product cycle story. from samsung's point of view, th

former stock exchange dick grasso is one that they have had. dick why is this. and what appears to me a disconnect and a rocky recovery. it is a strong year to date market. >> neil, what the market is telling us. one it anticipates a resolution of the fiscal cliff issues if not before the election and clock runs out in december secondly, the market is pricing in or attempting to price in a resolution of the row row crisis. and third, i think the market is by historical standards at a relatively cheap level. and not lose site of the fact that the market is pricing a regan-type election and ie election of mitt romney. >> you really think so? we are looking at video of you after the markets reopened after 9/11. the dow has doubled from the lows in early 2009 when the president came back in office. it is the wind of your market back and i am the reason why that is happening. what do you say about that? >> even dead cats bounce when you throw hem off of the empire state building. >> neil: no doubt. that is a helpful a bounce. >> look at what the market is pricing in

the reason dick grasso and i refused to give ne, is because i didn't do it. if i engaged into a settlement, guess what, i lost the right to say i didn't do it, okay? . president money didn't matter to me. it was the fact they didn't want the burden and i didn't want to have to say why did you settle? i would rather have been found wrong in a court or wrong bay hearing panel. i'll go to my grave knowing i didn't do it we didn't throw the towel in, but we went through the case and we we told we didn't do anything wrong. >> guess what. these people that resort to expediencies, they said well the number of people that called me, to urge me to settle, friends of mine, people i respect -- >> settle it and get on with your life. >> you know why? i wanted to be able to sit here today and say no, i didn't do it, and i proved i didn't do it, and if i did agree to a settlement, i could never say i didn't. >> you know i have eliot spitzer on about a month ago. >> i know you had him on. >> it got a little heated. skied about some of his recent tactics to get people to say