jonathan: joining me around the feld, is gershon distant -- myd lou pick first question to you, kathleen. is next week's decision really that much in the balance? kathleen: it is not much in the balance because the market is expecting it. there will be a hike but the comments will be dovish. will they be in 2019? >> i think that the markets completely misinterpret anything. we live in this black and white world. either they're hawkish or dovish. how about that growth has started to slow a little bit after years of being strong and now we are going back to trend line. we're not going to hike at all or hike five times. the fed shouldn't commit because it should be somewhat data dependent. jonathan: so this is a market struggling to draw a distinction between a return to trend growth and recession. gershon: 100%. the yield curve is looking, saying the fed's already gone too far. something we've spoken about many times in the past. if you drop your buys, came down from mars after the past 20 years and you saw where growth is, you saw unemployment is what most economists is saying full employ

fear feld is porting -- reporting 44 miles per hour when gusting generally, things with a light breeze near santa rosa at 15 miles per hour. the wind is getting to crank up and will be with us for the last day of 2018. partly cloudy skies and temperatures are up and it feels brisk. 47 in napa. we are in the 40s and winchell factor closer to 40 degrees. the inner east bay, wind is light and temperatures in the upper 30 >> the afternoon, upper 50s in the forecast. if you are going to san francisco, upper 50s and the afternoon. the bay area overnight, you need a jacket and 40s are expected about midnight. in san francisco, the fire for a -- fireworks should be a nice view with clear skies. we remain dry. the first chance of rain comes in over the weekend. there is sunday. it looks like it will stick to southern california. we could see things change. there is not a lot of change going on. >> rain is a blessing. a lot of people are bundled up. you can watch the fireworks. the rain will come. >> it will come, eventually. >>> record-setting day for the 49ers. they left with a loss but they a

the greg got feld show tomorrow night is brand-new and fresh, morgan ortega's, jim florentine, saturdayat show. and more. >> i already do, because it's the advertiser for new year's eve. so excited to be broadcasting live from times square right here in glorious new york city with my cohost this year, and of course, kicking off the main event in the 8:00 hour. jedediah will be there, lawrence jones will be in new orleans and we will also have tommy merin, tyrus as well, -- >> kathy griffin? >> kathy griffin will not be there. but nancy pelosi may be making an appearance on the show. not saying what she's doing but, can't wait for it. >> i want to introduce you to nutley, who is the sweetest 7-year-old chihuahua. he was born with just his back legs and he was abandoned, and was rescued. now he brings joy as a therapy dog to be done like children at the medical center. walks around and goes from room to room for people who are also struggling or kids who are in castes who are struggling, to say, i overcame my struggle and you can, too. people will underestimate often times how much these

bush, steve carell as rums feld. and lisagay hamilton as condoleezza rice.isagay, thank you for being here. i really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> so what was it like to try to inhabit somebody that the public knows pretty well. condoleezza rice was obviously a figure during the bush administration, somebody who had a very strong image, quite frankly. i remember her wearing tall boots walking across a tarmac in europe getting a lot of attention. what was your thought process as you started working on this such as adam says come join me, you have to say yes. when there is sam rock well and amy adams, you say, great, great, great i'll do it and knowing i would be portraying condoleezza was actually a treat to be able to portray someone who had so much influence and power during actually both of the bush administrations was tantalizing and interesting and just to be able to learn her cadence, her, the rhythm of her speaking voice but if you have an incredible makeup artist like i did with kate besco you don't have to work that hard because the m

people involved on social media in sharing the petition and also the hashtags and one of those is the feld a c act and that means trial of the century and the other one is meaning it means we are ready and greenpeace tweeted it hopes that the french justice system will force france to lower its carbon emissions in fact in this tweet it says that france's global emission was actually going up and it has continued to do so since twenty sixteen it also says it chose to go down the legal route despite it taking years because of the success of a very similar case that happened in the netherlands now as a landmark victory accords in the hague back in october ruled that the dutch government had to speed up its carbon emission cuts at least twenty five percent by twenty eight twenty in the order came the day after scientists warned us that time is running out to avoid dangerous global warming and there's been other things that are being shared one of those is this picture which actually makes fun of the french president in calling him in action man instead of the action figure from the sixty's kno

and when the fed -- what they were hoping for that the felde would say, all right, we're on target nowgin to watch on a daily basis. we'll go data dependent and we don't have anything in the hopper right now instead they said we're reducing it from three to two and that certainly didn't make anybody feel better so that's why you've got that little bit of an overreaction the other thing is the balance sheet. he's got that on autopilot. >> art, stick around, if you would, for us. we have more breaking news to get to out of washington let's get to ylan mui for that ylan >> more d.c. drama over the shutdown it's unclear if republicans will be able to move forward with a short term spending bill to keep the government open through february 8 republicans have been meeting this morning to talk about the path forward nbc news reporting house speaker paul ryan had to step out to taken a emergency phone call from president trump that lasted about 20 or 30 minutes. president trump tweeting shortly afterward that he is upset that he does not have money for his border wall yet. that he signed a spe

. >> you acknowledge that henry morgan feld, the u.s.ambassador to the ottoman empire at the time, said that the turkish government's deportation order for the armenians was a death warrant to a whole race and an aim which they made no particular attempt to conceal inner discussions. >> yes, senator, i acknowledge the fact of that reporting of ambassador morgan. >> would you discipline or otherwise punish an employee of the u.s. embassy in armenia for an honest remembrance of the armenian genocide? >> senator, i would expect that, as with myself, we follow the policy of the administration and the policy is that we acknowledge the historical faxed of the events of 1915, as a mass atrocity and that we participate in any remembers activities, and i will just say a senior leader in the foreign service, i am always open to debate on my team i don't punish people for expressing their viewpoints, but as members of the executive branch, at the end of the day, we support the president's policy. >> this is the problem, with the nominees who come b

gingrich is also one of the people, like ross perot, like don rums feld who was not particularly envelopedith grace. >> george mitchell, please weigh in. do you think the deal you cut is what led ultimately to him breaking that no-taxes pledge that many credit with him losing the 1992 election? >> well, the statement you made at the republican convention, read my lips, no new taxes, was great politics with bad policy. he later regretted and changed his mind and agreed to a prog m program, reluckantly. but it was a good budget agreement. it went through some changes from the time we began negotiations at that breakfast that john just referred to, but it's -- it set the country on a path toward a balanced budget that was later realized after adoption of president clinton's economic program. and in these days of trillion-dollar budgets, it's shocking to think that we were really worried because the budget deficit was going to reach $150 billion, and we all resolved -- democrats and republicans -- we can't let that happen. we've got to do something about it. and that led to the budget agreemen