timmy for example might call babi a rude word mr zucker on the other hand might subvert the global news corp betray all impartiality the ideals of journalism and misinformed millions all because of a petty grudge that's how powerful hate ease. these revelations board was courtesy of project veritas a conservative activist group and this is just part one that's after a c.n.n. employee a technician at their washington d.c. bureau spent months wearing a hidden camera at work spilling the beans so to speak and providing recordings of conversations at the news network kerry added dream to work in journalism at c.n.n. the spread news and then you found out how naive he was how things really work at c.n.n. it is one and 2 on whether i'm like hey if we if we have to cool let's just say we left if we lean right. let it be known but again it just tells back nothing i just want people to have the information of make up their own minds now which if you didn't see the hints about what was going on i mean is there any surprise that these revelations have you watched c.n.n. rode it to impeachment the impea

global economy. >> we're not done with this conversation yet bob pisani has a look at regional banks and how they're trading today. hi, bob. >> hi, courtney. good news overall, you heard from bank of america, u.s. bank corp, generally beaten expectations and the consumer appears healthy even with regional banks commentary. it's been very good. for example, pnc said long growth had been strong for both the commercial and the consumer loan sectors, u.s. bancorp said it was solid and particularly talked about mortgage revenues as robust. a common complaint has been overall long growth was anemic last year. it's been much better this year and this quarter four banks saw long growth anywhere from 4% to 6%, north of 6% in the case of pnc. last year, for example, 2 to 3% average long growth was typical. wilf not just jp morgan, money center but the regional banks are talking about a strong consumer wilf >> absolutely, bob and all of them very cheap coming into this earnings season, another factor why we've got the banks up week to date for the most part. bob pisani, thank you. >>> american shoppers pulled back their shopping in september. steve liesman is in washington with more on the retail data steve? >> jus