take herbalife, let's go to herb in florida. herb. >> caller: jim, great to talk to you. i've been an action alerts follower for the past few years, i wish i had gotten on board sooner. >> thank you that you support us. what's going on? >> caller: i have recently retired, i have saved up well over my lifetime and i have looked at the longevity of my savings and as long as i manage things well, i'm in good shape. my concern right now ask in allocation, i have about 65% right now allocated in stocks, split about halfway between what i follow you with and the other half in indexed funds. >> okay. >> caller: and then the remai d remainder is split between bond funds and cash and, you know, the cash fluctuates up and down. >> sure, you're doing it exactly right, just like we teach you in action alerts. >> caller: i've been paying attention then. >> you're doing what about exac like. here's a tip, when you see insider buying plus heavy short interest and a buy back at a dividend, well you got something, just be careful to avoid situation where is the shorts are simply determine

. >> sort of an herbalife type model. >> correct. >> why this short, though? seems to be other people in this trade as well. >> i'm a well-known -- i didn't know actman at the time. >> you hate the model generally. >> i think the model damages poor people and desperate people globally. what's interesting about usana is true about the entire industry. i don't think the industry was a great short a few years ago because they had this china phenomenon. china is 50% of usana's exposu e exposure. it started to roll for even herbalife in the last quarter which is surprising. but they filed an 8-k saying they are conducting an internal investigation with regards to their china business. they bought baby care a little while ago. what we've discovered in the chinese press recently is that actually they had 13 people suspended and three arrested. their executives arrested in china. now, they're conducting -- oh, an $56 million frozen. so here you've got this company -- >> that's 8-k. >> no, the 8-k is we're doing an investigation. in the chinese press in chinese, so you

i know for a while you came on as an ad advisor to the nutritional company herbalife.hey have been accused of praik on the latino community. when did you work for them? >> they were an l.a. company that focused as you said on health and nutrition. i've used their products in the past. the fact is my mom sold avon. she sold tupperware and that's what these people are doing. they are focused on health and nutrition and building small businesses. yes, they were recently chastised by the ftc. so they have virtually every fortune 500 company i can think of and so, yes, i was working for them until about the ends of the year and now i'm campaigning and working for you. >> great, well, thank you for coming in. >> thank you for having me. >> and that will do it for us. for more of our coverage go to qqed.org/new >> the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election gets turned inside out. i'm robert costa, and we'll have the latest on the federal probes. plus, why president trump has duclaired war on leaders of hard line conservatives, tonight on "washington week

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