lindsey: some great moments. larry: fun. lindsey: chewbacca mask is my favorite. my favorite. we did our own man quen challenge. we had -- man -- mannequin challenge. lindsey: the handstands are amazing. still ahead at 5:00 -- >> realize who she was. like a cement block i had no idea. lindsey: a stranger stops by. larry: and trip by japan's prime minister one for the history books. a busy day off. >>> merry christmas and happendy new year. i'm coming to you deployed in the middle east. i want to do a shout out to my family across the united states. i miss my husband and kids. missing my family but rocking the mission. coming to you from the a.o.r. happy holidays. lindsey: rocking the mission. good for her. the day after christmas is typically filled with happy returns for for those who would rather be anywhere than a shopping mall, having a federal holiday fall on the 26th make it tricky. brianne carter is live with the other options that people found today. >> some of the tasks you d shut and closed. those that weren't shut were along the national mall. we had mus

larry lindsey, president and ceo of the lindsey group and a former fed governor.d as the director of the national economic council. answer this quickly. >> been there done that. >> so you're not interested in doing anything. like from here on out probably? >> probably. >> you been over to trump tower yet? >> i went there before the election. but i'm not involved in what's going on now. it's -- again, i've been there done that and he's got some really qualified people that he's brought in. >> okay. so a guest we have on the show with a familiar name druckenmiller, stan, he was ayear ahead of you. >> we had a hot dog stand together. and i am the only person who can claim to have bought stan dru n druckenmilldruk druckenmill druckenmiller. i bought it from him for $400. >> and you sold it for what? >> $850. but, you know, it was fine. but if i left the money with him -- >> nationalize that return. >> if i analyzed with him, hundreds of millions of dollars. i really am a bad investor. >> that experience is worth a -- was very formative. the reason i bring it up is you

. >> we had larry lindsey on this morning, he said we're drawing fuel on a fully employed economy, viewersing what are you talking about? is he right or wrong? >> in the key demographic which is 25 to 54, which i'm not a part of, i'm too old, but we're pretty much fully employed. and where we're not employed, you'll notice whether it's the small business group or large businesses, i'm on the board of say at&t, there's a shortage. it's hard to find people with a skill sets that you need. so i would argue that we are if not fully employed certainly very, very close. but we live in a globalized world. and now of course with this we don't know what's going to happen in terms of our interaction with the rest of the world under a new president, but domestically i would say we are fully employed. >> so does that complicate efforts to bring manufacturing home at scale or do infrastructure at scale if labor's so hard to find? >> yeah. first let's put manufacturing in perspective. it's only 12% of our economy. and the majority what we manufacture is exported. so a lot of this is, you know, you have

larry lindsey was on yesterday. is he your boss? >> he is. >> did you watch him?o watch the boss. >> he doesn't have to watch you though. >> no. >> the nasdaq, the russell 2000, dow transports all logged new highed y yesterday's session. let's get a check on the futures right now. you can see we're indicated now up 63 points. it was 300 two days ago. no pullback or consolidation after that. we added on another, i don't know 60 or so yesterday. up 16 now in the nasdaq. and the s&p also indicated up. europe is green but barely. except in italy which did trade already got some gains after what wasn't a surprise vote. it was sort of in the news. i'm surprised that europe hasn't followed us. what's europe up since november 9th? nothing, right? the average? up a little, but not up 8%. not up 7%. >> and they're still well -- the dax is still a thousand points off its highs of last year even with all the qe in europe. >> right. qe doesn't -- qe is like scatter shot. it's not that effective. there's nothing like the prospects for real growth. >> absolutely. >>> let's get y

larry: the traffic here is mild, it's anything but. lindsey: in the great plains the blizzard condition shut down the highway from utah to the dakotas. some wind gusts hitting 70 miles per hour. a struggle for anyone wanting to leave the house or the work place. >> i was in shock. how am i getting out of here. >> there are hundreds of flights a day of delays on the area road. it's a case of too many cars on the road. q mccray joins us live alongside i-95 in lorton. it looks like the traffic is moving okay right now. q: not so much. this is along the i-95 corridor. pan right. what do you see? red lights. brake lights. this is the case from 4:30 or 5:00. if we were to pan left, off in the distance, you will see the white lights. that is how it looks on the southbound side. we were stuck in the southbound side traffic from the mixing bowl to radiobridge. it took us an hour. i was a mess. people are tired of this. >> 95 is still southbound. it's terrible. i shouldn't have gone out. >> you got to suck it up. the holidays. right? >> yeah. >> we need