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at one point i believe it was fred smith of fed ex said why don't you just by the end of the year pass an infrastructure bill to raise the gas tax and provide a solid foundation for infrastructure funding. the president made the argument that it sounds great but very, very difficult to get congress to move. he lingered a long time, ranged across issues of government shutdown, tax reform, of immigration reform, all things where the business roundtable and president obama have been in league with one another although they haven't always gotten what they wanted. but the president clearly tried to tease out those areas of agreement. as you suggested, tyler, cultivate members by -- he gave them a sense having let our cameras in on this meeting he said i said this to my staff but haven't said it publically before which would be endearing for the audience to say let's find the 25%. that is the way this president was trying to move the ball in terms of his relationships with these executives. >> he also said the corporate tax reform should come first and outlined some ideas on the table. do yo

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times" fred smith told analysts the slowdown in the west coast ports has been a much bigger deal thanrs saying they are letting in these big super containers. operators are saying dock workers are intentionally slowing this down. a federal mediator is in touch with both sides. amini says they have their stuff here. if they turn these ships around that's not really practical. they just have to sit and wait and they're stuck. back to you. >> thank you for that. happy new year. coming up a get rich quick scheme is backfiring leaving a man stuck with hundreds of dollars of movie tickets. es me... zero heartburn! prilosec otc. the number 1 doctor-recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. >>> there is an ohio man thought he was making a good investment when he bought 50 tickets to "the interview" at a local theater. his goal was to sell them online. sony decided to stream the film and that meant demand for tickets to plunge. jason best wants his money back. he tried to return to the tickets to the theater before the showin

. >> the chairman, fred smith, looks at this positively. a strong result, higher operating margin in the second quarter with continued growth and volumes in base yields the transportation segments. points out the final stages of the year's final shipping season. >> 11.985 was the estimate, this is 11.9 is all i know. i don't know if it's 800 million -- is that 800? no, 80, 80 mill shy. >> one of the things to point out is revenue was higher because of u.s. domestic package volume and export package based revenue, but offset by fuel charges and exchange rates. i forget about that. they have fuel surcharges they are in as lower fuel prices come down, they see some benefit from it, they don't get surcharges that the analysts expected. i don't know why they don't back that out. >> thin trading, but it's 169, that trades down 476. so, you know -- >> what, ultimately, is the core issue? lower oil prices, but how -- how do people get it so wrong when we know people are just shipping more and more and more at christmas time. >> they don't give guid