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to get a ♪ ♪ connell: welcome to the best of "imus in the morning" from new york city, i'm connell mcshanejournali and author jim lehrer to get us started, in fact, the first two interviews today deal with the jfk assassination. jim lehrer was anchor on pbs for many years, but he's also been the author of a number of best-selling novels. his latest stas with a premise that's true, lehrer was there on the d president kennedy was assassinated,

back to connell mcshane and bacon and -- dagen mcdowell. dagen: no way.who we are always glad to see? charles payne making some money. charles: reiterating and led them indeed, and maybe a couple weeks ago we talked about it but i think this thing is ready to pop. three months ago the street was looking at $0.45, consensus is $0.64 but there is a gigantic short position 20 to% and stock is short. in the past they had in consistent execution, one of these names you can rely on to miss at some point but it feels smoother and they beat three of the last four and have done amazing things with their mobile platform which will be the key like any online business but numbers are absolutely huge and the growth of the business seems to have hit its stride pretty nice lead. connell: i was talking about the mobile platform. dagen: a we're ration. why don't we go to break? charles: we will do this bump and what i should do here. connell: is it contagious? let us know. let dagen mcdowell know at least. misery loves company. dagen: least likely to have physical contact

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connell mcshane, it is yours.he company has to answer to lawmakers for that. on capitol hill those lawmakers can't seem to work anything out on the extension of unemployment benefits so we will bring in wayne rogers. tomorrow's business today, developing a way to control your computers and hand-helds with only your breen. when kickstart project could make that reality. prepping for the super bowl. getting close to. security measures in place to protect players and the fans. we have that and more. dagen mcdowell joins me from markets now. dagen: i am so leaving town that weekend of the super bowl. i am so leaving town.

dagen: connell mcshane was getting at the question, and to sign up with you.revent someone else from creating the same apps and doing the same thing? >> we give our stores of forensic verification system so it is not something we are obligated to do but it is important to help our stores mitigate the risk associated with delivering alcohol. connell: underage drinking and that kind of thing. >> at the end of the day it is about the network of stores, young guys, technology guys, this is about bringing small businesses, tools to be successful and that is the way we look at it. it is a holistic process of doing this. connell: how does that forensic system work? >> it is the fulfillment system and id verification is built into that and if they feel this is warranting a closer look, they will use that system to make sure you are you say you are. dagen: what is your cut? >> we take a monthly license fee from stores, we don't take any money from the transaction or do any delivery and this is about bringing technology in a framework for the three tiered system, we are

connell mcshane to sort this all out. connell: i look forward to these transitions. we will have more on that story coming up in our hour as well. including reaction to what might happen next, but we will talk about chris christie, governor of new jersey cannot shake the spotlight over the george washington bridge controversy. four presents a candidate steve forbes will talk to us about how much this might hurt christie come 2013. it is enough to turn you back to cash just about. and neiman marcus to the list of retailers who customers have had their personal information compromised when they are using. that story. general motors making the rounds of the detroit auto show. and the big story, alex rodriguez firing back. another lawsuit to try to stop his suspension from madeley baseball. his attorney will be with us in the studio this hour. coming up on "markets now." all right. pretty jampacked show we have if i may say so myself. dagen: so much on tv yesterday could not watch it all. connell: we will talk about that, and the a-rod thing. dagen: starts coming off of

jamie colby sending you to dagen mcdowell and connell mcshane.agen: let's make some money with charles payne, looking get gambling games. connell: a lot of people talking about gambling, resort and casino industry. charles: looking at las vegas, a lot of these macau related companies and come down with the chinese stock market pulled back and this is the one i like. they are neck and neck. i like them a lot. there is a pullback, an opportunity. they report tomorrow so obviously there's kind anxiety but also i got to tell you estimates are moving hire very rapidly. everything looks like they should be, then a gap opens and you chase it but you also have this migration thing going with the lunar new year so over a one week period the population probably will sell 300%, they were talking about holding people back from coming in cell i think this is an amazing story with a lot of legs. dagen: what about the business outlook and las vegas? charles: it is a little bit better. some of the data in november and december were not bad for vegas so that coul

we should have a guy like connell mcshane to sort this all out.y coming up in our hour as well. including reaction to what might happen next, but we will talk about chris christie, governor of new jersey cannot shake the spotlight over the george washington bridge controversy. four presents a candidate steve forbes will talk to us about how much this might hurt christie come 2013. it is enough to turn you back to cash just about. and neiman marcus to the list of retailers who customers have had their personal information compromised when they are using. that story. general motors making the rounds of the detroit auto show. and the big story, alex rodriguez firing back. another lawsuit to try to stop his suspension from madeley baseball. his attorney will be with us in the studio this hour. coming up on "markets now."

i am connell mcshane. dagen mcdowell will be back on monday and we will get back to those things i talked-about including the devil they be in a minute but we will talk the start with the market's, we see nicole petallides in place at the stock exchange. nicole: we are pushing ourselves into positive territory for the week. this week the dow is up 3 points. right now but 52 points at this moment, up 1/3%, the nasdaq and s&p the selling of quietly. we are talking fractional moves. it is expiration friday so we could see some volume and volatility today, we got in some housing starts numbers, nearly 10%. what is interesting is continuing to surpass analysts' expectations and to summer levels so that continues to be good news ultimately. what we are seeing on the dow o jones industrial average, american express after its earnings up 6%, chevron, exxon the best performers. on the dow jones industrial average helping it along. biggest loser in town. connell: breaking news on the heels of massive data breaches a

find your sleep number setting and dagen: it is as hard to take a photograph of connell mcshane thenotors design center. it applies an adhesive sticker over smart phone cameras before they are allowed to enter the facility. if you are trying to perform a fast one, you will not get away with that either. you want to know what gm shares are doing, lookee loo. connell: it looks like you are kind f trying to run around and take pictures of me. it is not science fiction at all what we are going to talk about here. this is according to a senior army official who spoke about it. according to the statement, the army is considering shrinking the combat teams by a quarter. of course, the benefit would be saving on money. the robots also could reduce the force protection. that would give the army more killing power per day. what jobs could be replaced by robots. just about all of them, it sounds like. >> looking away. markets are under pressure. markets continue to roll in. the bad news, however, is not all bad. connell: sandra smith joins us now. sandra: you guys could never be replaced by rob

all that and so much more, connell mcshane is here on this hour of "markets now." connell: governor christie wrapping up a news conference, so we are ready to go on "markets now." dagen: you were treating last night. connell: people staring at these devices. we will talk that in a minute. now to the market first of all before we get through any of that, nicole petallides, good morning. nicole: good morning, connell and taken. we started off with a very tough job this morning, less than anticipated coupled with participation rate, the challenges of 1977. the economy is not as good as people thought it was. the dow is in the negative territory right now. 16,014. the nasdaq higher slightly. most of the names have down arrows, some squeezing out some gains. take a look at intercepts, pharma up 300%. on a liver disease drug, tacking on further gains. back to you. dagen: the jobs report last month was terrible. people were expected the fewest number we have seen in less than three years. the unemployment rate did fall to lowest since october, 2008. that is because about

connell mcshane, it is yours. connell: target is the poster child for hacking of personal information. now the company has to answer to lawmakers for that. on capitol hill those lawmakers can't seem to work anything out on the extension of unemployment benefits so we will bring in wayne rogers. tomorrow's business today, developing a way to control your computers and hand-helds with only your breen. when kickstart project could make that reality. prepping for the super bowl. getting close to. security measures in place to protect players and the fans. we have that and more. dagen mcdowell joins me from markets now. dagen: i am so leaving town that weekend of the super bowl. i am so leaving town. stuart: i will mark on my calendar you are leaving town. told weekend? dagen: no just that weekend. going to be a nightmare. connell: i don't live anywhere near it. dagen: really aggressively happy fans on the street. where a girl can dream. there it is, 100 point gain on the dow, on the heels of yesterday, nicole petallid

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now back to connell mcshane and dagen mcdowell. connell: big names posting earnings results. to impress the overall market but charles payne, markets down all the time. charles: pulling back but it was interesting. almost everyone who reported this morning had great numbers. by now if you haven't, then more than likely you are going to be to. if you miss now and didn't create enough, really big names, all very impressive numbers but always comes down to the guidance of let's talk about a couple that did well and stocks were up and may still be a. del airlines and halliburton and the reason i like those two is because here are your earnings for this morning, you see all these names beat on the top line and the bottom line, these are recognizedable names, big-time names. delta, what i liked about delta is we talked about the nickel and diming capacity, starting to improve, latin america capacity was up 16%. these points are real authentic demand. that stock still a. dagen: i saw delta last weekend. charles: halliburton same sort of scenario, halliburton said amazing growth in e

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