trade deal >> but now, think about that for a second again, the markets sit near all time highs pete andjo jon are down. you tell me s that the market being complacent or is the market recognizing that there's a domestic growth acceleration we haven't seen in the last 20 years that's really, really supporting the consumer and corporations >> here's what else is coming up >> next up, the call of the day. find out why one top analyst said it's time to drop a key financial name plurks we're debating where your money is better off. that's next. before the break, our data partners on what the markets do after the jobs report misses estimates. it's happened 30 times in five years. and when it does, the nasdaq, dow and s&p mostly trade hire ore the next month with the nasdaq leading the charge. for more, go to cnbc.com/kensho. the halftime report returns in two minutes. the lexus performance line is tested the equivalent of up to 24 laps around the world. experience an unrivaled feel for any road at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. a hotel c

important questions remain how long can this bull run last and what do you buy at these historic highs petearian, what do you say >> there are three points i would like to bring up right out of the gate. we are getting very close. mike said we are going to see some sort of a pullback and when you do, you'll be able to buy that pullback because it's not going to last very long and i do tend to agree with with him, i tend to be more bullish than bearish and i still look at the news every single day and obviously at some point in time i think we can pull back and there are plenty of areas in the market right now and the multiples are still extremely low and i think there are opportunities everywhere and if you went to the 13 epps this past quarter, citi, bank of america and i'm talking about guys like david tepper and other guys that are huge investors that are still putting their money into those kind of areas and airlines are very inexpensive and we continue to see buyers there and warren buffett sold a couple of his positions and i think the combination of that and i think you look in the p

report enough to refire the fang trade here to debate, we begin apple today surging to a new record high peteou for obvious reasons. you told us to watch this service business from this company. for as long as i can remember and red hot. >> i tell you what, i think people now, that efb's talking about the services and i brought this up time and time again,

report enough to refire the fang trade here to debate, we begin apple today surging to a new record high pete, to you for obvious reasons. you told us to watch this service business from this company. for as long as i can remember and red hot. >> i tell you what, i think people now, that efb's talking about the services and i brought this up time and time again, wearables. take a look at the growth they've got. that's been a juggernaut for this them and extremely strong, but you know when you put this whole piece together, scott, when you're look iing at what ty reported last night t the guidance was there people said that the phone was not going to be you know, th thattinthat i exciting when you looked at the esps, that was incredible. across the board, this was a beat they excue d cuted in every day way, but it is services. if next generation wearables at 37%, that's nothing to sneeze at because those numbers are real >> stock got as high today as 201.32 203.45 is the number to watch. you've said this is the only stock that you own >> yep >> you're a happy man today. >> i am. >> would you b

away. >> send your questions to us, go to cnbc.com sla/halftime. >>> lows hitting an all-time high today peteyou own it. >> i'm very pleased. the stock was down 2% early and had a big spike up they are raising cash. people got excited about that because the forecast was not there. >> red robin falling today after comp sales that missed >> and i had a little bet with josh brown i guess i owe him a burger never argue with our food critic. >> just what he needs. >> never argue with a food critic about a restaurant stock. josh was right on this one but it's pretty flat today >> i thought girls were bad. >> vicious >> i don't know if i would name a company this, exact sciences exact sciences soaring after striking a marketing deal with pfizer for its color guard product, an in-home screening test for colorectal cancer steve. >> the stock is been on a roller coaster. got down to 40, was in the 50s, back down but that's not how you focus on these things. they also came out and increased by more than 10% their revenue guidance so it's a great space. testing is a great margin product. i wait for it to

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high flying chip sector. they've downgraded it to cautious saying indicators are flashing red. pete, i'll go to you risk reward, poorest it's been in three years upside, the estimates now difficult to come by >> i can understand the call, it makes a lot of sense because of the runs we've seen. just a tremendous run. give you a great day, might run. intel, obviously, there's a lot more going on at intel than just the business side. and that starts right up to the ceo having to step down. so, there are some reasons that i think stocks are off their highs. i would still think that risk reward wise looks great. i think there's still plenty of growth when you look at what are chips primarily feeding into now with stocks we talk about it's ai, it's cloud, it's data centers. because of that i still believe there's plenty of upside if you believe in the microsoft story and the rest of the cloud names i think you have to like these chips. >> they do and they highlight nvidia as well it's not a play on the entire place. karen, as you noted, as pete said, it did have a run. >> if i were a big

high? >> yes, it isis do they have growth? yes, they do. >> pete is coming to us live in minneapolis. hopefully some of our listeners and viewers paid attention and made a little cash for themselves what do they do with home depot now? >> oh, you still want to hold onto home depot. thises t is the time of the year where they continue to crush it. one of the biggest competitors out there, everybody seems to think that amazon. i am not worried about amazon, i think they're doing everything right right now at home depot in terms of -- they are progressing forward and they are absolutely competing in every single aspect do they go up against lowe's, i think they are different company. i still think they are upside. >> i love the name >> everybody wants to compare them they are separate. when you walk in a lowe's or walk into home depot and look at the professional side of business, absolutely no comparison they sell to a different ex customer base. so i mean i understand they're both in the same business but i got to tell you they are actually different businesses when you look at them cl

summer lovin' happened so fast ♪ >> i can see you in the danny zucko role >> pete played danny in the production of grease in highs this what -- this is grease in case people out there don't know >> how about kinicky it's been a summer of lovin' adding a whopping 11 $1/2 billion in market cap in that time the car that looks like the one from the classic movie grease. has amd run too far too fast >> i would be fading this run. i have not been in the name. 70s as a group look interesting. what's been sideways to down action intel is the best of the bunch the ceo not as big of a deal the guidance also -- on the second half of the year, is particularly conservative. there's room for them to try the upside >> why don't you try some of those upside calls it still has momentum. i would be cautious. i don't know if i'd but an extra dollar in it today the chip space, i would be a seller of amd. i bought it below $10. i thought i hit a home run you see this rip roaring rally it's had i go to nvidia i think they check a lot of boxes even at these levels >> that's a good would you rath rather >> it's easy, you've seen twice

high. in 2012 at 31 he beat 40 your income but pete stark to win a seat in the house representing parts of alameda and contra costa counties. now 37 years old he is aiming higher. a possible presidential bid in two years. >> i am considering it. yes. i think it is the ability to bring new energy and ideas and leadership and is something our country needs >> reporter: he sits on the house intelligence committee and house judiciary committee and blamed -- and is laying the groundwork. not to mention he has been to several other states around the country. >> mostly to help candidates who are running so that we can change the course of our country and cut our time in half in electing a new congress. c1 he has also been on national tv focus -- focal into the 2016 election and critical president trump expected this president has been a wrecking ball to our democracy i have tried to be a voice against what he is doing and it vote and someone that is offering a different vision. >> it is interesting, given that i don't think he is a household name, he would definitely be a dark horse candidate. >>

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pete. it was 90 minutes of shear panic and high drama out here.all island south of tacoma. the video is absolutely amazing. it shows the q400 turbo top doing loops and flying low to the ground lots and lots of people took their cell phones out and took video it just seemed so bizarre the 76 seat plane is made by bombardier and the military quickly sent up two f-15 fighter jets that came from portland. they came up in about seven minutes they were here and they followed it and they were ready to shoot it down if necessary. the man who stole the plane worked for horizon eras a ground service agent. those are the people who direct planes to the gate and deice planes during the winter. he joked with air traffic controllers about his flying skills even though he was not a pilot. he calls himself a broken man and sounded suicidal. >> i don't want to hurt no one. i just want you to wisper sweet nothings into my ear. i've got a lot of people that care about me and it's going to disappoint them to hear that i did this. >> the air traffic control tried to k

pete's favorite, target. tgt. it's just exploding through what -- >> hits a new high almost every day. >> for much more on this wave of bullish sentimensentiment, go to cnbc.com now to the latest on tesla where a new report from "the new york times" suggests that the board of directors was blind sided by ceo elon musk's tweet about the company going private last week. joining us now is bill cohen, a cnbc contributor, special correspondent with "vanity fair." good to see you. >> great to be here. >> what do you make of this latest installment of the report, the times saying the board had no idea or at the least, they were blind sided he was tweeting what he did >> hey, scott, i think the whole episode for the last what, close to a week or three or four kay d has been totally irresponsible to tweet out $420 offer fully financed, not let the board know, not have any commitment letters, no bridge loans, no highly confident letters sort of back filling, saying i've got goldman working with me, silver, which isn't even an advisory firm. walk tell working with him maybe the saudis i interpreted what the saudis said, they

high lot to talk about. joining us on the desk, joe, jim, josh, steven and pete i'm kidding. pete guys, all right, welcome

that's how we started the show pete, i want to go to you, i read this note raise the price target to 245. he says, continues to believe high octane fuel from services speaks to apple's unparalyzed install base >> you know what i didn't hair him say, wearables i'm telling you, something of the past -- they didn't love services two years ago, but now, everybody is look at apple services >> we're beyond that >> so is apple. if you listen to jim cook, he's been talking about wearables look at the growth if you segmented that as a economy itself those would be unbelievable numbers for your company. this is something that has to be examined when you say apple is just a hardware company. they've got services and hardware, is that enough to continue to positive go upward wearables, too wearables, there's a heck of a lot of margin there. there's a lot of reason why i think apple remains cheap and great opportunity. when we talk about rotation, last week, the rotation in the market, the fang names for the most part, all of them were down last week. yet what was up? you had apple hitting record high highs, sisco pushing towards the h

high lot to talk about. joining us on the desk, joe, jim, josh, steven and pete i'm kidding. that was for you, pete guys, all right, welcome so we are one-half of one percent away from record territory. what can drive us into that? what could derail the market josh brown, please don't sigh more buyers than sellers >> buy backs will help two things but i still want you to stay around for the rest of the show. these guys probably have some interesting stuff to say as well number one, when you look at the brooefs team we hit that, which was late january of this year on the s&p, two things were happening. number one, we were extremely overbought on the basis of rsi. we were hitting an rsi of between 80 and 90 for two weeks. which is way overdone. meaning the momentum was way o strong that's not the case right now. it's much more healthy to be back at those levels and not yet overbought the second thing i want you to focus on, percentage of stocks up to 200 day. when we were hitting those peeks in late january, it was an absurd number. in the 80s almost every stock was in an uptre

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high crimes. she is running against susan davis. on the democratic side an increasingly tight race against pete sessions.as just endorsed by former president obama and he is now neck and neck with congressman session in the polls. thank you for being with me. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. >>> president trump says he would grade his performance an a plus so far. presumably vice president pence says that is not high enough. >>> breaking news hours after president trump said flipping almost ought to be illegal another trump loyalist is granted immunity and he is ready to talk to inquiring minds in the mueller probe. >>> the president's favorite punching bag punches back, the attorney general standing up to president trump after another public humiliation. >>> with his white house

pete suratos, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >>> back to school season and for a bay area high school today's very special. new video of students arriving for the first day of school at cardinal newman high school in santa santa rosa. the fire last fall heavily damaged the campus and half of the school was destroyed but did open last fall with all 600 students returning. temporary classrooms were brought in. many students and teachers lost their homes but they say the destruction actually brought the community together. >> this school is my second family. we came together and as a community and we collected everything and to help our students, to help our families get back on their feet. >> teachers say students were all smiles today as they began their new school year. fresh start for many in that community. >>> all right. so it's another cool august day out there. we talk about cool because as we head to the weekend it is going to definitely warm up. >> yeah. this is compare bring cool as we get a look at what we are seeing out there right now. and we are going to see those skies of the clouds rolling by

high in the traffic and speeding category. good luck out there. slow it down. >>> changes could be coming to one of san francisco's busiest streets. pete, how are we going to notice some of those clanhanges? >> good morning to you. you'll see here along geary boulevard are more of the lanes specifically for buses. the big concern for folks is that we are learning that it would be limited to private transit. i want to show you a map to give you an idea of the scope of this project. you can see an extent where we are standing here in san francisco. from marcus to 34th avenue. it runs just over 5.5 miles long. traffic signals to ease traffic and protected left turns to help drivers in the area. the future of the red lanes will be discussed at 1:00 p.m. we are live, pete for today in the bay. >> we have a ripple effect for any changes. right now it is on the freeways. we are looking at a little bit of slowing. you know about this. we are traveling north. you can see the first burst of traffic. we should see it clear up over the next 15 minutes. you can see two small incidents and a lot of space out there. one of those includes here. that's

know this is not what some viewers want to hear but what pete strzok did was indefensible in many ways. while he was in charge of two of the most high-profile counterintelligence cases. fbi folks say that subjected him to blackmail. and then he texted in a very inflammatory and biased way about one of the subjects of the russia investigation, donald trump. yes, you would find if you pulled the text of other fbi agents, you might find similar texts. these were the ones who were exposed. they brought discredit upon the bureau. and many people i've talked to thought the fbi had no choice but to take this action. >> as you know, the president has been trying to make the case that the russia investigation has been comb pra itpromised by. does his firing in some way help trump's case by i guess giving credence to the idea he did something very wrong? >> i think sadly it does. even though the inspector general found no evidence that this misconduct and this bias infected the investigation. and caused any unfairness towards trump. the whole strzok saga has given them ammunition and it's unfortunate. the polls show robert mueller's public im

money we welcome in josh, steve, jon and pete, jenny harrington is with us, ceo and portfolio manager at gilman hill the nasdaq's remarkable run. new records and highs for the glamour names. amazon and apple >> if you look at the names within the nasdaq now, some of the strength we're seeing in old line tech. what was some of the leadership yesterday? intel, microsoft, cisco. when i look at these names, i think there's plenty of room to the upside because we're not talking about year 2000. you say how do you ever to manage to say that's a stock you can buy. i look at the guidance that was put out by these names, it's unbelievable how strong they are right now and the growth in the categories where they are is unbelievable and because of that, i think many of these names are still far too cheap. >> it's pretty remarkable that the stocks you like are ones that have had tremendous performance yet you still feel there's upside ahead you know, microsoft. up 30% year to date netflix, up 79% year to date google with its own good year, good year. and you still say there's more room to run. >> yeah and interestingly enough and i agree with pete come complete

high position. so clinton went through two people before he got an attorney general. he got two of them -- >> and donald trump put pete sessions in there, who was supposedly his best friend, and now -- >> it would have been -- >> jeff sessions, not pete sessions. pete sessions is a good congressman in texas. >> if jeff had a nanny problem, probably a lot better. remember the first two clinton people had nanny problems. >> jeff sessions had to recuse himself from an entire investigation. >> i don't know why he didn't come to the president with that. i really don't know. i don't know what the hell he's doing now. >> well, because his main duty was to the administration of justice, and he recused himself because he had to because he was fatally conflicted. >> okay. if he believed that, he should have told the president beforehand. >> beforehand -- >> before he got confirmed by the senate by one vote. >> all right. fine. let's stay in the present, though. omarosa, you like to argue in the alternative. if she has some piece of proof that demonstrates that the president was aware of what e-mails they had, what would that me

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pete. what could replace him in the future? >> crushing them economically. >> look at the demographics of iran. many more males than females, extremely high unemployment, very youthful population. when you have so many young men who are then angry financially, we're pro pressing the people not the leaders, they're living fine. if you notice what happens, the way iran does, unlike in our country, thankfully, what do they do? they arrest the violent people, people disappear, they torture people. >> then what is the solution. we need to help them rise up. >> a deal that's not going to happen. >> hillary clinton chose not to pay attention to that rise. it made it complicated. almost tacitly said to the government, so repacious in terms of how it treats its citizens, lock 'em up and kim kill 'em. we had an opportunity on get in there. you know, you're a veteran, a military -- >> we had the opportunity and did nothing. >> to do it with peace, but we sat on our hands while they were trying to have a revolution. we might have been able with social media, might have been able to make a difference. >> the iranian's see president trump different tha

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pete, you bought lvs? >> i did an insider, the president of the company just bought 10,000 shares of this stock at 71 well off the highs like when i see the insiders buy. >> perk and elmer? >> great earnings report beat on the top and bottom line. raised the guidance. this is a great way to get into medical exposure >>> we'll take a quick break and bk and do final trades. ific oc. we're the most isolated population on the planet. ♪ hawaii is the first state in the u.s. to have 100% renewable energy goal. we're a very small electric utility. but, if we don't make this move we're going to have changes in our environment, and have a negative impact to hawaii's economy. ♪ verizon provided us a solution using smart sensors on their network that lets us collect near real time data on our power grid. (colton) this technology is helping us integrate rooftop solar, which is a very important element of getting us to our renewable energy goals. ♪ (shelee) if we can create our own energy, we can take care of this beautiful place that i grew up in. ♪ a few problems actually. we've got aging roadways, aging power grids, ...aging eve

highs. time to take profits or stay in the game. >>> and one big call on netflix. is the 15% drop in two months an historic opportunity to buy in >>> and peteack. that and more at the top of the hour david? >> i want to alert viewers to shares of papa john's, embattled pizza chain. stock is up. reuters reporting hiring of some bankers. we can confirm that. they hired lazar, bank of america. the founder stepped down last month. doesn't mean there's a deal anytime soon some would like to think so. certainly you can imagine in the case of potential buyers whether they be private equity or strategic thinking it might be opportunity given how much the stock suffered in the course of the last year. but what one might imagine is if you're the company, you're still dealing with 28% holder, the man who founded it, and you may want to get your house in order before considering a sale. hopefully having done that, you can sell off a far higher price. want to note papa john's up on those reports. morgan >> thank you. >>> elon musk has a plan to reduce traffic congestion in los angeles during dodgers games his boring company is proposing a tunnel to ferr

see how high he thinks it can go the call of the day is is next plus, fresh after telling us twilio was set to pop, see what else pete is see ng the options market but first after a big gain for tech in the first seven month of the year, between august and the end of it have year, the sector scores again it's up 88% of the time. with an average gain of 11%. ec.m/nse, go to cbnbcokeho thhalftime report is back in two minutes. ♪ before you can achieve a higher standard of craftsmanship, you need a higher standard of craftsman. see for yourself at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. need a change of scenery? the kayak price forecast tool tells you whether to wait or book your flight now. so you can be confident you're getting the best price. giddyup! kayak. search one and done. are you ready to take your then you need xfinity xfi.? a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple,

certainty that pete is not going to do anything wrong in the future, he's not going to be a recidivist, given his stellar career and all the contributions he's made and given the unanimous highd that his work has held in the bureau, that on balance the demotion -- and these are very serious consequences, the demotion and the suspension was the right call and not dismissal. and then that was overturned by the deputy director. >> agent strzok spoke out forcefully against the idea that those text messages mean that he implicitly had bias, that he wasn't able to put his bias aside and conduct a fair investigation. we should note that there's no evidence that peter strzok made up information that would start the russia investigation. we should also note that there were no leaks about the russia investigation before the election, which would have certainly potentially tipped public opinion about donald trump or swayed it in one way or another. that being said, we have folks in the democratic party, including representative swalwell today, who said that, yeah, strzok deserved to be fired. those anti-trump messages are hard to put aside. you had frank figliuzzi, the former fbi count

high school in albuquerque. he attended law school at the university of denver and then returned to private practice in albuquerque. in 1972, he ran for united states senate and was elected as a private republican. pete was known as an expert on the federal budget. he was one of the chief architects of the federal budget process. at times, he was one of the most knowledgeable people on d.c. was -- not only was this -- he focused heavily on deficit reduction. on budget matters he was among the most knowledgeable people in the room. people who served on the committee were well advised to be prepared before taking questions from him. this brought out a sampling of materials related to his work on the budget committee as well as some of the effects of that for new mexico. we brought out his nameplate from the time as chairman of the budget committee in the 1980's. as theator's position times chairman of the budget committee -- for over 20 years the senior republican on the budget committee, put him in an advantageous position to steer funding toward new mexico. one of which was the human genome project. behind-the-scenes supporter of it. --the human genome was done we didn't have any authorization. this