mill where he literally had made a hand drawn american flags of the unionists new to mehat the hawkins bill. e k capt. picture of american -- abraham lincoln on his mantl and told everyone what a great and good man our president was. this was in southern mississippi in the heat of wartime. when these crack regiments were dispatched to deal with him and his allies and other neighboring smities, they arrested hawkins, which is how they -- take care this handmade american flag from the body of hawkins's life and hid it under her dress and a report is filed about raiding the hawkins bill. the same is true going to jones nunty next where a fire fight the rockets with his men, the confederates that the worst of it. they melted back into the swamps and a confederate officer wrote a report saying we want them st, they are gone. with a month, newton knight would be launching another raid against the confederacy theyallation, they free local slaves, killed or ran off every ijnfederate officer in jones county. it has been said that jones county formally seceded from the confederacy by the end of the w

med tronic cio bill hawkins has concerns about where america's health care policy is heading. he'll join us live to talk about it. this is "the call" on cnbc. first in business worldwide. >>> okay. stocks coming out of the gate higher on this monday morning. continuing to rise to triple digit gains. leading the way, tech stocks and the return of merger monday. plus the dollar index reversing early gains sending commodities higher. the dow is up 127 points. about 1 1/3%. the nasdaq right now also in positive territory. like we said, techs have a strong day. you can see the nasdaq there is up almost 2% on the day so far. tris trish, happy monday. >> it's been three days since we've seen a real rally here in the dow, really moving quite, quite ahead with full speed here. up 128. as you were just pointing out, we're going to talk about merger monday and how that's affecting things. certainly a return of confidence in some ways on the corporate level which is leading to a return of confidence on the investor level. i want to bring in mary thompson who's tracking all the internals o

plus, ceo bill hawkins is going to join us with his take and concerns about the nation's health carend we're going to talk about the weak dollar and how it could impact stocks in the fourth quarter. we've got a jacm-packed hour. but first, "squawk on the street" is back right after this break. >>> okay. we're up 125 for the dow right now. just off the high of the session. oil and gold, though, are -- well, they are the stuff of a lot of fights. both up since the march bottom. many will say the benefits to investing in oil and gold are very similar. but if you had $1 million to play with and you had to put it all in either one or the other, which would you choose? joining us now, president and cio. global commodities strategist with bmo capitals market. jerry, make the case for why oil really is black gold. >> sure. oil has two distinct advantages over gold. principally the supply argument. in the case of oil supply, we're seeing pretty rapid deterioration now around the world in oil production. it's being masked, obviously, by recession. and you won't really appreciate the effect of

bill. opponents of the pharmaceutical companies said that the president is letting them off too easy. host: we have another half hour with our guests brian hopkins -- hawkinshow does the debate over health care impact the ability of congress to get the spending bills done on time? guest: it helps somewhat. the worst and listeners get annoyed when i say things like this but congress, even though they are 535 people, they have a limited attention span and limited energy level. health care which is the biggest thing the congress is doing is eating up a lot of the attention. fortunately, for congress and for the president, with democrats running spending process, this process is running more smoothly than it has in past recent years. host: you think they will be on time? guest: they will be relatively on time. they are coming back to marron that leaves them only three weeks to go in september. i cannot remember all 12 of their bills but for i think are ready to go. that leaves eight that need to go for the senate and be negotiated rebels a lot of work to do. i will predict that there -- they will be three weeks late. caller: you have one saying that president