take gnc holdings. gnc for all you home gamers, the vitamin store chain with more than 7,800 locations around the world including 6,000 right here in the u.s. this is a classic play on the healthy living theme we've talked about many times on "mad money." healthy living. think you still want to do it even after the cliff happens? and back on november 1st gnc reported what amounts to a triple play. first the company delivered a three-cent earnings beat off a 58-cent basis. second gnc's revenues beat wall street's expectations too. third they gave upside guidance on forecast. higher than expected earnings and revenues for the full year. good forecast. that's the triple play. those were some excellent results. one of the very few companies able to run that gauntlet according to some excellent research put out by the good people at bespoke investment group, which actually tallies up all these surprises and looks for the biggest ones. you would think that gnc checked off all the boxes necessary to go higher,

>> i'm looking at things like gnc. you want to look for one of those companies that are going to benefit either way. you know, gnc is offering proprietary products. you can go in there. they are going to do well regardless. liz: if you have the frequent purchase card, you get a deal and that makes you feel better psychologically. i want to talk a little bit about hot topic and another one, abercrombie & fitch, american eagle. you know all of these names, aero postal. -- aeropostale. they all run together for me. >> i always think what would my mom have done if she had to deal with this? she probably would have bought me a few less sweaters. those stocks aren't doing so well and that reflects to the fact that purchases will have to go somewhere else. liz: i can't talk about the company that makes the generators. there will be a long tale about gnrc because people have woken up and said i need a generator. >> that's right. if you look at their fourth quarter, you are going to have people who always view generators as a l

it's not them, for militia to storm the gnc. there was discussion if the gnc should move its primary location away from tripoli, keeping in mind and guys the isn't safety the. so they're not even know to provide a protection let alone expand protection to the country. the other implication was there were accusations the government, the government is being biased, depending on who supports the militias, and again the best example of that was a situation with benny ali. going back to the idea of using an iron fist, the application is quite dangerous in the fact that people have given up on due process or given up on building institutions or the long-term change. when people are calling for the iron fist or not necessary concerned by the means that the instance by the means, then you can create this same system that led to the revolution in the first place but i think that's a growing concern that some people, particularly and international organizations and human rights organizations have on the ground because you're seeing a larg

you somehow convinced gnc to put the product on the shells.did you show them it was safe enough for people to take and they would get a little energy on it? >> here is what is interesting. there is nothing in 5-hour nothing already in foods and vegetables. tracy: b-vitamins, caffeine which is everywhere. >> that's correct. caffeine gets a really bad name but the large starbucks has twice the caffeine of 5-hour. tracy: if we don't know how many bottoms these people took prior to these so-called deaths, what is the fda going to do to figure out actually that you're the cause of this? >> no. we submit this stuff to them. they look it over. tracy: they have to take this further, right? they have to now determine if there's a connection? >> if the reports make sense, in other words, if it is something like this car accident --. tracy: sure. >> they're not -- what are you going to investigate? there is nothing to investigate. tracy: if the fda does somehow determine there is correlation between these deaths and your product, do you remove it, do you

maybe this is an opportunity to go buy some gnc, some companies i have been highlights on "mad money." gold four was binary, stocks are going to go down, or are we not going to go to bar, it's a binary number. >> you go off or you don't go off, but in terms of various kinds of deals that could be reached, there are a million, as to what happens. >> you could climb back up the cliff, once we fall off the cliff. >> there's a very sudden aggressive attack in gaza, who knows what's going to happen there. china, these are not reformers who are going to be on this committee, it looks like. >> some stocks are already, with the market down 8% from the high, if you go back to the stock that was already 9% from the high last year. a third of the stocks are beginning to bottom. they are the general mills, which general mills was up yesterday. verizon is down from 47 to 43, you figure, i'll start buying verizon, but at this point you're getting 5%, at this point it's tax free. i'm just saying that not everything falls at once. it won't fall with the same velocity. >> until the president spoke. >>

very important for sovereignty of libya and the population that the gnc made a decision and what we see particularly have been very clear that there's a need to support it. >> in addition, libya has resources that facilitate these relationships in ways that other countries might not. egypt one of the two. >> in the case of egypt we have a tremendously close enduring relationship with the security sector. that is political and financial relationship and there are levers. the debate is how to exercise those levers. my own sense, my personal opinion that the more they are exercised on the basis of quiet diplomacy in dialogue with security sectors, the more we can push this process forward but at the same time having a public discussion with egyptian leaders -- there are two discussions that have to be pursued at the same time and let me review something, in the case of egypt, important civil society, a stake in this and part of the dialogue. we need to maintain our relationship with them and the important thing you pointed out but is in the report is some of these groups include elements o

targeting of militia without answering those questions will only further erode the legitimacy of the gnc. it is important that we don't hit the legitimate debate because it's a pressing issue. i think that that, you know, calls into mind the final issue that i would have. i think bob already mentioned the complexity of the securities sector reform, and i think it needs to be reminded that only within libya, but the engineers of community as well, and managing expectations. so much needs to be done. there is a lot of parallel tracks that must be taken. even in a best case scenario, if there was an institution that were quickly to emerge, just the fact of building trust and confidence from the community in these institutions for so long has been the reason for oppression in the country is got to take a lot of time. my concern is that in order to see results we may be putting a lot of pressure for quick short term fixes and skipping processes that would give more sustainability for a long-term solution. >> thank you very much. i think what you were able to do in linking some of these curren