maybe from the former majority leader eric cantor with our own charlie gasparino after this.eil: all right. private payrolls are surging. 275,000 more private workers added to the economy in the latest month. they were expecting about 177,000. sometimes, not all the time. that can telegraph a good general employment report when those numbers come out on friday morning. we'll get a sense what the federal reserve is thinking of all of this in its decision and whether that kind of strength, that kind of mirrors similar strength we've been seeing echoes the sentiment, maybe, maybe this idea of just standing back and just not hiking rates at all for the remainder of the year, let alone cut them might be called into question. something that would give the fed pause obviously what is happening in the manufacturing part of the economy. that slowed down a little bit. dropped reading to 52.8 from 55.3. we have senior research fellow very row nokia -- veer nokia de rugy joins us. every strong number, strong piece of data, strong gdp report, that housing is not exactly firing on all cyli

this time he's talking to former house speaker eric cantor about president trump's continuous pressuren the federal reserve. charlie will break that in just moments. and we are just two days away now from our annual visit to omaha, nebraska. we're spending the weekend with warren. warren buffett at berkshire hathaway and its annual shareholder meeting which is like wood stock for capitalists. we will walk the floor with the oracle of omaha, and we will ask him about the fed, the economy, even what he plans to do with his 1 billion dollars plus pile of dry cash. it all gets underway friday. we will be live right there, from omaha, and we've got nebraska governor, and the executive chair of home services of america, the largest real estate, residential real estate company in america, and the one, the only, mario gabelli, investor extraordinaire. that's friday on countdown. we're coming right back. don't go away. this is not a bed... it's a revolution in sleep. the sleep number 360 smart bed, from $999... senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfort

we have eric cantor hopefully coming back. guy that push the him out is gone busy day ahead for the markets, finally. we're going to goat this a quarterly report card for wal-mart is expected at 7:00 a.m. eastern we'll also get pinterest for support as a public company. on the data front we'll get the latest jobless claims, housing starts and a key regional fed economic indicator stocks to watch. cisco reported better than expected third quarter results also issuing an upbeat sales forecast for the current quarter. the company says it made changes to its supply chain to minimize sales exposure to china helping to cushion the blow from the trade war between beijing and washington, and jim had the cfo and chuck on last night. they were both pretty -- i think i just was impressed with their answers to a lot of these. >> i think the most important take-away at least for me from that report is that the guidance for the current quarter includes the impact of the new round of the price hike, right? it's still upbeat. people are going

eric is shoving cantor into his own man. little fight breaks out, nothing too bad but the bottom line is, he's all even in a low- scoring affair, one-one going to portland on friday night. a little time to check this out. let's go to the videotape. hungry dodger fan here lives for his fries and burger but he did come up with the fries at -- he did come out with the baseball. this time he lost the pizza, roughly $280. this is manny motyka signing an autograph for the braves mascot there. he's playing a trick on him, he pulls off the cover, he signed a $300 million check. most of his salary right >> that's kind of cool. >> all worth checking out, that is the sporting liner. >> thank you. >>> thanks for joining us tonight. good night. ♪ flintstones! meet the flintstones. ♪ ♪ they're the modern stone age family. ♪ ♪ from the town of bedrock. ♪ meet george jetson. ♪ ♪ his boy elroy. with instant acceleration, electric cars are more fun to drive and more affordable than ever. electric cars are here. plug into the present. he resul