still with us is max king. now, taking a look at earnings, what has surprised you the most, max? >> there haven't been many surprises. in the u.s., earnings are better than expected. in ierp, they've been a bit better than expect aceations. and that, again, is what normally happened. so we haven't had a surprise at all. the fact that the stronger dollar hasn't impacted profitability as much as analysts were expecting, is that a surprise? >> not really. we have to remember that u.s. companies derive like 70% of their revenues domestically. so the foreign exchange is no that important to the u.s. we also have to remember in the u.s., the domestic herbs outperformed the international earnings. so there has been some impact, just not enough to ruffle the surface. >> max, thanks very much for that, for now, max stays with us for a little longer. >>> still to come on the show, time to hit the high seas. can it successfully get chinese tourist owes board? we speak to the ceo first on cnbc. synchrony financial partners with over two hundred thousand businesses, from fashion retailers to

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king right now. that's how great this fight would be. of course, yeah, who wouldn't want it? this is the political equivalent of thunder dome. you know, this is the like the mad maxof politics right here. bush versus clinton. you can't get any better than this. except the problem is, jeb is not nearly as funny as george. that's the only problem i have with him running. >> so as a comedian? >> i'm not as happy. because i don't see jeb looking into a camera and going, i'm the decider. i'm sorry. >> i view this a little bit differently. >> still trying to get over him being the don king of politics. >> i look at it differently. we'll have a retread of the same characters we've seen in political life for decades now. that's the best we can put forward? i don't read the comments -- it's hard to say whether he was saying it's more than likely he's thinking about running, or thinking of running. i don't think it's quite as definitive. >> i lot of people are reading into it what they want. some in the chatter class in the media -- >> is that us? [ laughter ] >> they want that race. >> i tell you what i'm thinking. i wish i could have been a fly on the wall when they told