ara hovnanian of hovnanian enterprises coming up. there are better numbers comingt psychologically help the consumer, don't they? >> i think so. if you look at last week's number, the real spending number was better than expected or at least semiin line. i do think the consumer will come to the rescue at some point but the larger story right now we're in a market the data needs to say so before we rally unlike it was the last couple years. with that in mind there is only so much money chasing so much out there. a lot of people are overweight europe which they should be including myself, underweight u.s., the fact that we are in recovery but slowing right now. the data needs to say so. that will take some time. david: we may have a fight on our hand because mike you say exactly the opposite. you're pulling back on spending money in europe right now. why and where are you reallocating that money? >> so at the beginning of the year we saw an opportunity to allocate money to europe to overweight europe for the first time in a long time b

you see names such as hovnanian up 7 1/2%. pulte up 2%. lennar was winner. move from negative into positive. hovnanian gained 20 cents a short time after the report came out. back to you. melissa: thank you, nicole. new allegations that the netanyahu government spied on u.s. nuclear talks with iran. according to a new report from the "wall street journal." let's bring in our panel. rick grenell. tony sayeg. peter brookes from the heritage foundation. former deputy secretary of defense under president george w. bush. thanks tore joining us. ric, you were longest serving spokesman for the u.s. in history. does this stuff go on at u.n.? >> goes on all the time. rule is you can't get talk doing it. let's face it everybody does it. the worst offenders, germans when they get caught always like they have never done it before. so the -- melissa: you read this morning. absolutely i believe this is the case. do you then believe supposedly handed off to members of congress? peter, maybe i throw this one out to you. speaker john boehner saying he was shocked to read the

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the ceo, of one of the largest homebuilders, ara hovnanian.izes in divorce is helping dozens of wealthy women grab their share in settlements. remember the $1 billion check to his ex-wife? and, titans at the table, cruising the highest see, why the cruise industry is looking to avoid any depth. more on hours national airing thursday night right here on bloomberg television. first, a look at our top headlines. a major deal in the food industry. merging.