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dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving.lcome back a welcome back a big market event coming next week that could impact your money. earlier in the week the very latest numbers on the housing market as well as the housing market index, existing home sales, on the docket. later in the way, the latest on new home sales and the shf a house price index. also the very latest on some important market movers like the gdp. two straight quarters of 3% growth. durable goods orders a market that mover. income and consumer segment in the week i had. a few good names reporting earnings. the latest quarterly numbers from fedex, bed bath and beyond, general mills, black berry, nike, rite aid. next week on wall street -- "wall street week", very good notion, my special guest in an environment where leonardo da vinci painting is going for $450 billion. we went to find out what is going on in the art market. i'll see you on sundays for "sunday morning futures" like 10:00 a.m. eastern on the fox news channel. that's it for us. have a great week

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. >> one of the most difficult legal issue ofur time. how to protect new established gay rights and our religious liberties when they come to conflict. the oregon court appeals ruled yesterday against a couple fined 135 thousand dollars after their bakery declimbed make a wedding cake. the attorney for the bakeers melissa and aaron cline said they were declined of religious liberty and free speech. how do we find that balance when everybody rights want to be rapid. joining us now for the discussion from austin, texas is robert the general councillor and center for american future request robin burrow an act viv in an army ranger veteran in@lancea. thank you for your service and protecting the united states and your service we do appreciate that. i want to start with robert here. why is this a religious liberty issue opposed to what robin will argue which is dinner than that. why does religious liberty in the first amendment trump what is going on here? >> jason thank you for having me the issue is whether the judiciary should con

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. >>> welcome back to "fast money.ast minute shopping rush is here just how big are the -- how are the big shippers handling the deluge of holiday shippers for christmas? morgan brennan is live at the stock exchange hey, morgan. >> reporter: hi, melissa the shippers are expected to deliver oar -- over 1.1 billion packages how is it going? based on third party data from ship matrix, pretty well ontime performance for ups ground, over 97% you recall results for this week shows both ups and fedex are performing even better ups says demand for its services remains very strong, quote, we've returned to our peak operating plan, and normal time in transit after the initial cyber week surge for fedex, quote, fedex is on track for another record holiday shipping season. so far the company is saying it's the best peak season ever as for last mile delivery, this is what amazon uses very heavily, it's been 99% on time, and it too has seen higher than expected volume. this past sunday it forecast 6 million deliveries it did 10.5 mi

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving.: shock new revelations about the obama administration's appeasement of iran. the obama administration according to "politico" backing off an investigation into a hezbollah drug and organized crime ring in order to secure that iranian nuclear deal. >> today the united states, together with our allies and partners, has reached an historic understanding with iran. reporter: at what cost was the nuclear deal with iran reached. a "politico" investigation alleged the obama admin snraition order to reach the agreement drastically curtailed interdiction of drugs into the u.s. for years it has been known hets bow la was active in the south american drug trade. >> for some unknown reason we seem to have missed out on one opportunity after another. we seem to have forgotten about the importance of disrupting the supply chain. reporter: "politico" reports prosecution, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the justice and treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests. >

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving.regg: the united nations security council unanimously approving tough new sanctions against north korea. the latest sanctions are punishment for the regime's launch last month of a ballistic missile pyongyang says can reach the united states mainland. it appears the trump doctrine appears to be working. the economic vice is tightening on north korea. the latest sanctions block fuel, ships, workers. but the history of kim jong-un shows he doesn't care. he doesn't care if this people are suffering, living in poverty, dying. what is the impact? >> people think north korea is the most of sanctioned country in the world and it's not. his economy is about to implode. if he thinks it's a danger to his regime, if he thinks genels are looking aim in a ba way, he will kill the i he can. before you get to military force, you want that to be the last resort. so what's going on is useful in terms of tightening sanctions. the workers another countries are essentially slave labor. two million barrels

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving.rles: several so-called political experts and journalists made predictions about what they thought would come in 2017. i will give you a spoiler alert. almost all of them were proven wrong. president trump's coauthor tony schwartz predicted i pray trump will resign by year end to avoid worse humiliation, indictment by mueller or 25th amendment removal. vince, the list of these predictions from trump being exiled to the economy imploding. there is no end of all the experts warning us of all the doom and gloom. n't didn't work out that way. >> no, it didn't. that comes from a place of underestimating his ability to get things done or overestimating his core for evil. he has a colorful twitter account and watched over a pretty successful year getting legislation that outweighs many other presidents. you can look back on this year and was able to get the over the finish line. charles: you would have to be awake 24 hours a day just to keep up with him. tammy: i think they were less predicti

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving.ennedy: north korea ramping up chemical weapons in addition to its nuclear arsenal? the north korean soldier who defected had antibodies in his system consistent with anthrax expose our. >> isn't this a great way toned the year. just you and me and the four horsemen of the apocalypse. kennedy: i hate to talk about positive, uplifting news. so why are anthrax antibodies particularly troubling when we have known north korea has had biological weapons for some time. >> they are probably profiting from the collapse of the soviet union. there are a lot of scientists probably look for work. he was either inoculated against them because he was guarding a germ warfare facility or he was work on it and built up anti-bodies. anthrax is not as dramatic as smallpox or playing. anthrax bacteria can go dormant and come back to life later. kennedy: that sucks. >> it does. how do you weaponnize it? you can create germs and various diseases. but to put them on a missile war head and have them last on r

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving.nedy: i love spending new year's eve in times square. i came here when i was in junior high school on a choir trip. this week jesse watters and i will be hosting it's supposed to dip into the low teens. we'll have mufflers, beanies, and bun warmers so we can withstand the cold. almost half you will be at home sunday night. 40% of americans day home new year's eve. snuggle up with me and jesse so we can ease you into another great year. i always joke about this being the best hour of your day. but you make it mine. from suggestions for "topical storm" to suggestions on stories, i can't thank you enough for your support and humor. and thank you to the very best staff in cable news who make eight joy to come to work even when they make fun of my outfits. thank you so much for watching the show tonight. follow me on twitter and instagram. email kennedyfbn@foxbusiness.com. i'll see you on the "outnumbered" couch tomorrow noon eastern, 9:00 in the west, and new year's eve 9:00 p.m. east coas

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. lauren: breaking news overnight.r win for president trump, the government avoiding a shutdown christmas week, at least for now. >> stocks got a lift from tax reform victory, the dow up 55 points and on track for its fifth straight weekly gain. u.s. stock market futures poised to open higher by 27 points. lauren: in europe all eyes are on spain where proindependance parties win in catalonia, the question for reactors how do you react if spain falls apart? >> in china the shanghai composite went lower. take a look at that. lauren: gerri is calling daddy-shopping weekend and i agree. some retailers are there for all the men who like doing last-minute shopping, we will tell you all about that as fbn:am continues right now. >> it's 5:30 in new york on friday december 22nd, come on and join us, just three days until christmas. good morning, i'm gerri willis. lauren: good morning, i'm lauren simonetti. i do have to apologize, it is daddy-shopping weekend but i have things to do too. >> you always forget something, right? la

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dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving.rles: the trump administration opposing -- imposing more sanctions against north korea. a. charles: the market couldn't gain traction today. although a lot of intriguing action within the session itself. retailer toind face remarkable rebounds suggesting brick and mortar survived the amazon onslaught. 20 brupss this year third -- -- 20 bankrupts this year thinned out the herd. foot locker was written last two months agient has com -- two moo and it has come back nicely. then there was crude oil which is the big winner. it has been on a wild ride. saudi arabia, and america's fracking miracle. last year they were talk about a two-handle for crude oil meaning it would trade at $21 a barrel. they are on the cusp of trading above $50. several runs towards $60 have been thwarted and the breakout comes north of $62. but you must have expose our. you can play of it safe with a fat dividend like a chevron. but the fed released the september manufacturing data. all the components doing extraordi

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dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. >>> welcome back, everyone.ues following that deadly amtrak derailment in washington state. officials with the ntsb say the train was traveling toward a curve at 80 miles an hour when it derailed off an overpass. two victims identified as zack willhoite and jim hamre both train enthusiasts and excited to be on the train's first inaugural ride. according to the associated press investigators are looking into whether the train's engineer may have been distracted by an employee at the time of the derailment. >> heartbreaking. >>> all right. officials say it's too early to determine why the train was going too fast but there are questions to be raised about safety. new technology known as positive train control was on the tracks in washington but wasn't operational yet. nbc's news' tom costello has more. >> reporter: among the questions for federal investigators did the engineer know the track he was on? had he done the test run before monday to familiarize himself with speed limits? did something or someone distrac

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dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. >>> welcome back.nd here is what congressional expert dave wasserman wrote precisely about this tsunami. he wrote, quote, tsunami alert. only problem for dems, elections still ten-plus months away. david wasserman is a political analyst for the cook political report and nbc news contributor. david, talk numbers to me. >> ari, we're seeing some horrific polling numbers for republicans. democrats have leads in excess of 12, 13 points on a lot of generic congressional ballot polls. our expectation is that democrats need to win the national house popular vote by somewhere around 7% to 8% to win the barest possible majority in the november mid terms. and so they're above where they need to be. and again, the only problem for democrats, the election is still ten months away. do. >> you think democrats look at this and think, gosh, do we want to stick with the same leaders with have? i mean, nancy pelosi has done this a few times, and she's got a lot of love in the party. but there is also a lot of other voic

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. ♪ >> i've seen it. think it is going to do very, very well. i think we're going to be in a position to pass something as early as next week which will be monumental. david: president trump today sounding very hopeful getting a tax bill through congress next week. is this long painful process of beltway sausage-making finally coming to a successful end? let's ask our friend, former presidential hopeful, forbes media chairman, i should say mr. flat tax himself, steve forbes. there is no flat tax here by the way. we're going from seven brackets to seven brackets. whole simplification is going wrong. reduction in the corporate rate. a little reduction at the top rate. what do you think? >> in the corporate side if they haven't messed up fine print making sure overseas companies don't play games that rate is pretty good, 21. pass through, knocking 10 points. expensing all to the good. individual side is mixed bag. but final version looks like better than what they had two or three weeks ago. they got the top

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dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving.t trump going after the deputy director of the fbi suggesting andrew mccabe maybe biased in favor of hillary clinton, all amid reports of his imminent retirement. our more shake ups in the works at the agency let's bring in our panel jessica, democratic strategist and senior director of research and james freeman, assistant editor for the wall street journal's editorial page both are fox news contributors great to see you merry christmas i like the christmas tie. why did he ever take on this investigation into hillary clinton given that his wife had received money for her campaign from people close to clinton? i mean don't they have any kind of sort of sense of chinese wall at home? >> well, i think whether it's at home or in the office, you're looking at a lot of evidence that the senior leadership of this law enforcement agency was all in for hillary clinton, and -- trish: you think so? >> well you look at the strzok/ page texts and they refer to the famous moment it was in andy mcca

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving.welcome to a very special edition of wall street week. i'm maria bartiromo. usually we are the program that analyzes the week that was. today, we are analyzing the year that was by looking back at our biggest news-making interviews, most memorable moments of 2017, including this moment of myself with president trump. >> this weekend is the 31st anniversary of when president reagan last instituted tax reform. >> right. on sunday. maria: that's a big deal. on sunday. exactly. do you think we have

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. ♪ liz: welcome back. breaking news.l street journal reporting disney is finalizing the deal to acquire assets from 21st century fox. that does it for us. thank you so much for having us in your home. thank you for watching. charles payne is here now with making money. charles. charles: good evening. i'm charles payne. another record day on wall street and historic day all driving across the country tonight. stocks soaring with the dow and s&p hitting all-time highs. rallying behind the federal reserve's rate hike. also more importantly, we are in the middle of an economic renaissance, and i think it's only going to get better from here. meanwhile, president trump making his final tax reform push as the gop reaches an agreement americans their two final tax bills into one final draft. which includes a 21% corporate tax rate and top individual tax rate of 37%. and while gop leaders are working around the clock to hammer out the final details, president p

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving.ncestrydna can pinpoint where your ancestors are from... and the paths they took to a new home. could their journey inspire yours? order your kit at ancestrydna.com >>> let's talk money power politics. republicans head home for the holidays on a high note. the gop tax plan is now just waiting for the president's signature. as my next guest says, whatever happens to the economy now is the president's to own. back with me, former senator bob torricelli and politico's ben white. we're talking about taxes earlier. we have to stay on this. we've heard from chuck schumer in the last couple of days. obviously democrats don't like it. chuck schumer would love to repeal this thing. but come january 1st, do we have to move forward and say this is the law, own it and work with it? >> yes, the republicans now own the tax system and they own the deficit. and if indeed their projections that this is going to pay for itself and bring down the deficit do not work, it is their problem. more likely the

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving.rish: well president trump on the attack on twitter this weekend. yesterday, the president took aim at fbi deputy director andrew mccabe suggesting he has a conflict of interest with hillary clinton and referencing some reports that he may be retiring very soon, tweeting " fbi director andrew mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits 90 days to go." let's bring in new york congressman peter king he sits on the house homeland security intelligence and financial services committees. he is also chairman of the house subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence, so good to see you merry christmas this morning >> merry christmas to you trish. trish: representative do you think andrew mccabe is about to retire and do you think he needs to retire? >> yeah, all the indications are that he is and yes, i think he should. there's been so many questions raised. i worked with andrew mccabe over the years in my position on the intelligence committee and homeland security committee

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. ♪ >>> breaking news on capitol hill, senatorubio is a yes on the republican tax bill. republican marco rubio wanted the child tax credit expanded. he got that from $1,100 to $1,400. this means that the republican bill is all but going to pass and go to the president's desk. we are still eyeing a number of other senators that are out there including senator flake, senator corker, senator lee perhaps, but probably not. and of course john mccain. but right now it does look that the republicans have the votes they need for this tax plan. meanwhile, today u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson again urged north korea to drop continued development of its nuclear program. in an address before the u.n. security council and north korea's u.n. representative, tillerson said pyongyang knows that it needs -- knows what it needs to do to get to the negotiating table. >> the sustained cessation of north korea's threatening behavior must occur before talks can begin. north korea must earn its way back to the table. the pressure campaign must an

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. ♪ ♪ paul: time now for our hits and missesaul, on christmas morning thousands of tiny tots are going to be open train sets, and one of the first things they'll learn is if you drive too fast, they'll come off the rails, because even kids are smart. this is a miss for amtrak whose own engineers have not mastered this concept and, again, killed three passengers in washington state. it's also a miss for congress that continues to subsidize an outfit that has a safety record like this. it's time for it to end. there are better uses for taxpayer money. paul: all right. mary? >> a hit for sparks therapeutics. this week it got approvals for an injected gene therapy that treats a genetic eye disease that causes blindness in some 3,000 americans. now, the price hasn't been announced yet, it could be as much as a million dollars, but i think the larger point is that cures for genetic diseases which even a decade ago seemed hopeless are now coming on line, and if history is any guide, they will be more and more available to the general p

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dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. ♪ neil: the battle is on. no matter what happens tonight. 1% of the precincts are in. mitch mcconnell is set to hold a meeting with all republican senators if roy moore were to win. it would and moot point if democrats win. the president forced their hand by saying he beats the democrats. presidential historian doug wead *. and lee carter. republicans are betwict and between. i get feeling if they had their druthers, it would seem we note environment in which this is happening, right? >> yes. and we know anything can happen. the republicans can do whatever they want. their hand is not forced here. ted kennedy had a young lady die in his car when he abandoned her when he was drunk and he got re-elected. the mayor of washington, d.c. smoked crack cocaine with a prostitute and he got re-elected. barney frank had his live-in lover running a house of prostitution. neil: i know where you are going here. if that does not happen and moore were to lose tonight, i almost get the feeling there would be relief among a lot

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. ♪ >>> a clear picture is merging as who'llx reform plan. dom chu is joining us now. >> michelle, i am going tell you who will have the most benefits. the team got together looking at the five years medium tax breaks, we'll count them down. energy, the biggest taxpayers out there, 35% tax rates nine, telecom and industrial have 32 and some of them are capitol and intensive industries having the highest tax rates and number five, 30% and financials and number two is healthcare of 26 that leaves the big number one is technology companies probably paying the least in taxes at least according to the most effective tax rate as for some of the companies, that's the most impacted goldman sachs has the highes rates out there, maybe that could be a beneficiary of tax cuts conocophillips, energy side, 49%. goodyear tire and rubber, 46%. j.b. hunt, 38% zions bank, 35%. companies goldman sachs tracks in their high-tax basket. >> thank withdryou very much. nike getting air, up 15% over the last month the stock is at a one-year high. straigh

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dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. ♪ neil: so when is the president going to signthing? maybe house majority whip steve scalise knows. we'll talk to him 4:00 p.m. eastern time on "your world" on fox news channel. that is coming up at 4:00 p.m. this fine channel, trish regan. trish: thanks so much, neil. huge christmas present for millions of americans it is all thanks to president trump's promise to cut taxes. many companies announcing today they are giving out christmas bonuses, they're hire aring more employees and they are investing more into our economy. it what's we need earnings and markets know it. market up triple digits up 102 on the dow jones industrial average. getting closer and closer everyone to, 25,000. we remain right here for the next hour on 25-k watch. i'm trish regan. welcome to "the intelligence report." christmas bonuses, more jobs, good news, right? i said it on this show over and

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. ♪ with earnings.the morning. jon fortt is with us for more. it seems like cloud this time went in the other direction. >> for oracle, it did. for adobe, it went in the same direction it's been going, up and steady the tale of two clouds first, on oracle, the guide in the cloud was weak, at least based on what an ls were hoping for. and really, this is coming as oracle is trying to shift to a new gear in the cloud. on the call, larry ellison, mark hurd, all saying they expect the beginning of 2018 is going to be the real shift of database to the cloud. some of the autonomous database technologies they brought out t open world when we of course talked to mark hurd about that just a couple months ago, those will start to kick in. complicated licensing acrobatics happening as companies figure out what license they're going to use in order to manage their move to the cloud, whether they want to do it all at once or gradually at a different pace. that's one issue another issue, related to the hybrid transit

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. ♪ investment, this time in finisar.ple's coo and finisar's ceo and joins us with more hey, josh. >> carl, apple did just announce this big $390 million investment in finisar it's part of apple's $1 billion advancement manufacturing fund, and check out shares of finisar right ow they're surging on this news company is going to use this money, carl, to ramp up production of what are called vixal chips. they help power a range of apple technologies, so face i.d., animoji and ar kit i just did speak exclusively with jeff williams, apple's coo. i asked what exactly apple is getting out of this investment, and williams saying it comes down to access to cutting edge technology and ramping up production of these chips. take a listen. >> vixals are at the heart of some of the most advanced technology that apple produces and they're used in a wide range of applications across industries but when we were working on iphone x, we realized we needed a much more advanced vixal, and we needed way more capacity. if you take the entire w

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. ♪ >>> disney's newest "star wars" installmenttting theaters later this week and the lineup of toys are expected to drive major sales this holiday season. julia boorstin has all the details for us >> hey, wilf "star wars" has a big advantage. it has the broadest appeal of any toy brand because kids their parents who grew up as collectors are all buying the toys expected to drive $1.4 billion in "star wars" toy sales this year. now, "star wars" is the biggest franchise over the past year and the biggest of any movie franchise ever hasbro benefits with licenses for more than half of "star wars" toys and for disney, it'll also benefit because it gets a cut of the $3 billion ttpm projects in retail sales of all the "star wars" branded products that includes games, apps, and clothing and this year's lineup aims to expand the "star wars" appeal. there are more tech toys than ever including droid-building kits, drones that look like fighters, and a $200 lenovo augmented reality headset which includes a light saber rag & bone has a fashio

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. >>> okay it's getting interesting here we haveews alert on embraer and the talks with boeing phil lebeau, we've heard from the brazilian government >> we have, bill, and two headlines coming from reuters regarding the brazilian government's reaction to a potential deal between boeing and embraer. the first one is the brazilian government, it is open to embraer partnerships in commercial aviation, but here's the key caveat here. not a total sale of the companies. that's according to a government source being reported by reuters. other headlines from reuters, the brazilian government rules out any deal transferring control of embraer, again, day are citing a government source so this leaves the question of what boeing be able to do with embraer? the possibilities are an equity stake in the company certainly not as intriguing, i'm sure, to some investors, as an outright takeover of embraer, but certainly a possibility. and there are some reasons to think that boeing might be interested in this given embraer's dominance, if you will,

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dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. >> here's what's stocking your second hourbill passed. what is in and what is out in like it or not, why it matters for everybody's mono pep the president is ending his first year on a high george will is here on what trump may be able to accomplish or not in the new year can you believe this over the past three months, oil has been a better investment than most technology stocks, but will the tax bill actually send prices lower i'm brian sullivan "power lunch" begins right now ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "power lunch. i'm michelle caruso-cabrera. stocks are lower, but way off the highs. the dow off nearly 100 points. staples and technology stocks lagging while telecom leads right now. disney, pfizer, they are dow laggards, chevron and cisco are leading higher chevron higher by more than 1%, leading new highs and the transports, fedex is leading the group from the back, strong earnings some earnings winners, micron earnings the beat and raising forecasts for 2018 blackberry also soaring on the back of a strong beat. on the flipside, re

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dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. ♪ maria: welcome back.s happy tuesday i am maria bartiromo. it is tuesday, december 12, your top stories right now 7:30 a.m. on the east coast. 21 century fox looks like logs aed byer, comcast stepping down, no longer procuring a deal for key entertainment and media businesses, disney is still eyeing a deal, it is anybody's guess if comcast staples with ai because deal with disney is more likely the latest on glue plainia in media. >> markets will open higher dow industrials high of the morning up 40 points s&p 500 and nasdaq also higher a fraction in europe similar story many moving into equities this morning, european indices higher across the board ft 100 up a quarter of a percent cac quarante up platform one half of of a percent dax in many up a quarter of a of a percent. >> markets lower at the close worse monthly china oil prices are rising as pipeline was shut down for repairs crude oil now 58.41 a beryl, a southwest flight diverted over a signature get this a passenger caught smoking in the lav tory

dr. vasquez) it's going to be life-changing, and life-saving. ♪ >>> breaking economic news a key read onesults from cnbc's fed survey straight ahead. >>> getting a deal done on tax reform a live report from washington. plus, we'll talk to senator pat toomey >>> our guest host investor chamat -- talks bitcoin. >> i think it is -- amazon domination and the next big thing in tech. the final hour of "squawk box" begins right now ♪ >> chamat, founder and -- of social capital he is also a part owner of the golden state warriors. what else were we going to talk about? what do you think? what's on the horizon? >> we can talk tesla, some potential long-term shorts talk whatever -- >> oh. >> yeah? it. >> yeah. >> we can talk about the most exciting company in technology >> which is. >> which is kbrong >> a.i >> we can talk about a.i we can talk about all that stuff. >> we will good that's why i asked him >> this morning dow has been picking up ground as we've been talking through the course of the morning. right now it looks like it would open up by sechbl to eight points above yesterday's close s