pulitzer prize winning columnist jim stewart.ys trump's unusual leadership style is not working in the white house stock ss aloesre selling off a bit with the dow down almost 200. ♪ baby, i'm sorry, not sorry >> good morning and welcome tock to "squawk on the street." i'm sara eisen here with david faber live as always at post nine at the new york stock exchange carl is out today. let's take a look at the markets. half hour into trading, the rally pauses after five straight up days. the dow is down 147 points s&p 500 down about half a percent. same thing with the nasdaq definitely more of a defensive tone to today's rallies, but keep in mind we're coming off of a 10% sort of pop from the lows. all sectors are lower. our road map for the hour starts with general motors raising its guidance this morning. after 2018 earnings exceed expectations, an interview with ceo mary barra in just a moment. >> a nice bounce in stocks over the week, lower across the board in the first hour of trading. >> and government shutdown, day 21 as it ent

jim stewart. >> former chairman of the president's economic council ed lazaer.e debut of "the exchange" with kelly evans kelly's special guest legendary value investor bill miller we'll get his take on the market and some of the names he likes that's today at 1:00 p.m. on "the exchange" with kelly evans. "squawk on the street" is back with more next >>> as the broadcast markets have moved off the lows, a handful of stocks are up double digits find fought any of those are worth a buy on tradingnation.cnbc.com more "squawk on the street" is coming up. >>> okay time now to get to the cme group and join rick santelli for the santelli exchange. >> reporter: thank you, david. i would like to welcome president george w. bush's head of the council of economic advisers, ed lazear. ed, 312,000 jobs, the unemployment rate moved up two-tenths and rages year over year at 3.2 and we continue to hover at a ten-year high on employment to population ratio at 60.6. comment on friday's jobs report. >> well, obviously it was a very strong report. you talked about the employment to

jim, thank you >> not the last we'll be talking about this >> i'm afraid not. >> jim stewart >>> whenacco. the ceo of marlboro-maker philip morris joins us on "squawk on the street." the dow down 170 points. spacesh. hang on. radar that senses things the human eye can't. busted. and the ability to make a thousand decisions before you even make one. was all this, really necessary? what do you think? ♪ >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street." joining me, the ceo of philip morris international welcome. >> thank you for having me >> you're here with a big message for global leaders and government leaders took out a full page ad in "the wall street journal" to make this point that your cigarette company doesn't want to be selling cigarettes any more. how does that work >> well, we set for the companies to replace cigarettes as soon as possible, they don't combust tobacco, they're smoke free the problem in smoking is the delivery system to deliver nicotine and taste if you don't, then you reduce toxicity by a very large degree, and that's the mission we said to ourselves now, to achieve

attorney's office once headed by rudy giuliani, once headed by jim comey, an office that's prosecuted terrorists, mobsters, and martha stewart. at this moment, in december of 2018, sdny represents the gravest legal threat and potential criminal threat to donald trump. and a prosecutor told me this week that there is nothing stopping that independent office from sending its investigation and its conclusions to congress. >> that should get everybody's attention. all of which somehow brings us to this year's 10 most. >> three, two -- >> number 10, men we are calling the good fellas. >> that's michael cohen, paul manafort, and mike flynn. >> just because the word "good" appears in goodfellas, we should probably point out to our more sincere viewers you mean the opposite. you mean the scorsesean ideal of goodfellas. >> donald trump is in fact a great unifier. >> michael cohen pled guilty to eight federal charges. >> he's a man of great intellect, great intuition, and great abilities. >> so he's lying very simply to get a reduced sentence. okay? >> michael flynn, general flynn, is a wonderful man. >> michael flynn, who served as p

stewart lane in white oak. and police are now calling it a double murder. >> let's get to pat collins live with new details for us. pat? >> reporter: jim, an suv ce down this road, bumping into parked cars as it went along. one here and then one over there, and then yet another there. it finally came to a stop when police got to the scene they thought they were responenng to an acc it turned out to be a double murder. inside that suv, 24-year-oldn christia roberts and -year-old jordan radway. they were good friends, teammates. peyyed basketball together at paint branchigh school. police say both men have been shot to death. today i talked to jordan's godmother. >> what has this done to the family? >> crushed them. crushed them. crushed. >> what are you going to rememb most about jordan? >> his fun loving personality. his sweetness. >> reporter: both men had cently graduated from college. christian roberts went to stephenson, jordan radway went to umbc. >> jordan is aonderful young man, a recent graduate of um, graduated with honors he went to paint branch high school, was a star basketball player. he has so many friends who have house.

stewart and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. we will hear from other reporters who are following this. let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. first, our pentagon correspo correspondent barbara starr is getting information. what are you learning about the syria attack? >> this is the largest single suicide attack against american troops in syria. tonight, isis far from defected. without warning, a suicide blast on the busy streets in northern syria. u.s. troops and civilians killed and wounded. people suddenly thrown to the ground. devastation in this commercial area where u.s. troops had been on what the u.s. military originally called a routine patrol. cnn has learned from u.s. officials the troops had a civilian intelligence expert with them, actually hoping to collect information about security and adversaries in the area. two u.s. troops, along with that civilian intelligence expert and a contractor were killed. three service members were wounded. acting defense secretary patrick shanahan offering condolences. >> allow me to extent on behalf of the department of defense our thoughts and prayers to the families a