continue to be very volatile and i think there will still be this news, and i'm going with a name like kmi and the reason i say that is they are just so disciplined and oh, by the way, richard kinder just bought another 300,000 shares a week ago again to add to his buys that he does it seems like every couple of weeks and he just continues to buy back i love the discipline of this company, though because think back to 2015, they had a dividend of $1.93. they had to cut it and since that time adding back to it, very disciplined and i think they're doing all the right things and that's one of these names that i love. >> if you had stopped and that's why i'm in, i would have never guessed kinder morgan. i thought after your whole spiel about technology and how it snapped back and they'll be volatile, though >> and kmi just had another 52-week high today and i like the semis and i love apple >> let me ask you because i agree on kinder, but you talked about, hey, look they were down yesterday and there was something to bail you out on the headline and to me do you think you're getting a solutio

what about kmi >> it's finally starting to move rich kinder has bought so much stock. one in the group given the insider buying yield is 5%. the dividend is going to go up it's okay. i don't like fossil. i guess if you have to buy fossil, that's it. let's go to ron in colorado. ron. >> caller: hello, jim cramer boo-yah. >> boo-yah. >> caller: long-time listener, first-time caller. my question is this first i want to thank you. i've made a lot of money on the faang stocks >> yes, faang is ours. >> caller: yeah. my question is i have some buy and hold stocks that i got years ago. mcdonald's and exxon and actually intel and i need to liquidate. >> intel not so great. don't feel it there. exxon, i don't like the fossil mcdonald's is one of the greatest stocks of our time. do you think that mr. easterbrook has come on the show i have had mcmuffins, bik mag m and fries. until he comes here i'm going to keep recommending his stock. hey, why don't we go to doug in wyoming. doug >> caller: cramer. >> doug. >> caller: l. brands is down more than 29%. >> why did you buy it, doug?

. >> he sold secrets to the kmi chinese. david culver explains why the judge didn't send mallory to prison for life. >> reporter: for 30 years kevin mallo spent serving in the military and later withinhe u.s. intelligence community overshadowed tonight by a 20 year prison sentence. in thiser taped intgation from 20ld, mallory initially to investigators he was approached over linkedin by chinese researchers. that's how mallory said the foreign contacts represented themselves. >> they said if we were the government, would make a difference kind of thing? i said well, if you're the government, it wouldn't make a diffence to me, but what are we csulting on? >> report: federal prosecutors say this was not consults butag in 2017 mallory flew in from china and search his bags. inside more than $16,000. tw months later they searched his leesburg home with canine teams. they were looking for evidence of aspespionage. a found a cell phone. he said the chinese gave them to him. he said this is a way we communicate to you information or

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kmi, this is a stock that i have owned for a long time, i'll be in these calls later on but kindergartenerd kinder continues to buy that stock, and today, they're starting to buy these july calls to the upside as well, so before i -- right before i walked over here, i saw these calls trading. get aggressive these july 21 calls, 8,000 of those, those are going to continue to go higher, i expect. >> good stuff. because we have a viewer question coming in on uri, otherwise known as united rentals. we're going to get after that one next, plus a few more. you have time to reach us on cnbc.com/halftime. you can tweet us we're back in two minutes. bye snowball. now this is training. keeping my reflexes sharp. ha, oh! you were just beaten by a rabbit. you don't even know it. [ ding ] oh, my pizza rolls. monitor their blood glucose every day. which means they have to stop. and stick their fingers. repeatedly. today, life-changing technology from abbott makes it possible to track glucose levels. without drawing a drop of blood, again and again. the most personal technology, is technology with the po

companies are leaving china so that they will be more competitive for usa buyers we are now a much bigger kmin china and have substantially increased in size since the great 2016 election. we are the piggy bank everyone wants to raid and take advantage of no more. >> i you take great -- you have never seen a trade war that's not disinflationary, and you are pointing the table on that >> go back to 100 years. it doesn't happen. the reality is mathematically it may look like there are prices that look higher, but the end result is there's less trade and less economic activity. >> that doesn't make me think it's time to buy stocks then that makes me think the fed might cut, which then when we got another fed put coming in. >> that says our view. >> the first thing is you basically until two weeks ago went up in a straight line. to us it's the fed is going to thereby the way they change tactics in january >> we're in a -- this is a situation that's not going to be cured by the fed every day the news organizationed like market watch, they need to put out -- they need to just churn this stuff out.