michael r.: it is interesting what mike is saying.e-jerk outlook athat are algo driven. -- god bless you if you try. mike makes a great point. there are some pretty legitimate reasons why the wage growth would come down since they are adding so many lower paid jobs to recover from the hurricane. from the equity markets , theective, for the moment macro is taking a bit of a backseat to the bottoms up analysis of the tax bill. people trying to suss out the winners and losers of the tax bill, trying to figure out what elements of it will not survive to the president's desk. the sort of macro beneficial aspect of this big tax cut was largely priced in to begin with. it is really this bottom-up effect on the stock market right now. jonathan: lisa? lisa: i think that you nailed something, mike. don't look so surprised. [laughter] the tax proposal that game and yesterday was a big surprise in a lot of ways to the market. it was a downside surprise for a lot of big companies. mortgages, at least once over $1 million, that are going to face a

. >> she is being protected by a federal judge, michael r barrett, i suspect it will not last long, there is no clear and imminent danger to lois lerner. and the government has admitted, she was lying and deceptive. that she -- >> why isn't she being prosecuted. >> she should have been but obama didn't of justice did not prosecute her. lou: we're in november. >> now jeff sessions, the feckless -- >> i am adroit myself, about rod rosenstein, get on work. >> his allegiance has always been to liberal democrats, his mentor was barbara ma cull ski. >> the president, year ago saying he thought that idea of an at&t, and time warner merger was a bad idea. >> he was right. lou: his department of justice, is following through on that. and the ceo of at&t came out today, said, we're going to have cnn and basically threw down, against the federal government. i have never seen a ceo be so reckless, so ignorant. he is wasting shareholder money by the bucket because this is going to be a great way to have justice department insist that he spend about 5 years in court fighting this. >> absolutely, i wrot

page bune, this morning in the "new york deal, flynn'snt of lawyer cut off talks, saying t.flynn, r michael former national security advisor legal d the president's team they could no longer discuss the special counsel nvestigation according to four people involved in the case, an -- flynnn mr. nin flin officials.ting with the times writes that agreement terminated, the four people said in defense, lawyers during formation investigations, but they must stop stop, it is unethical for together.o work stiunder investigation the notification led about trump's lawyer to believe mr. having seen as significant criminal exposure, has at the least begun with mr. mueller about cooperating. let's fwet to calls. lee in grand gorge, new york, lee on the republican line, welcome. caller: hi. i wanted to comment on your previous guest concerning white in puerto rico. i have been hearing for weeks news his blatant fake concerning white fish and our representative, that it was nefarious back-door thing, that is why they were chosen. our guest pointed out that puerto rico interviewed several electric compani

our third witness is michael r. and deborah k. reuben, presidential chair at wake forest university. our fifth witness is a partner at kirkland and ellis llp and sandra haguey partner, chairwoman of the christians for israel united fund. and national director of the antidefamation league, our eighth witness is the executive director penn america and rosenberg foundation. your written statements will be iftered in their entirety and we ask that you sums are your testimony within five minutes. there's a timing light on your table. when 2 t switches from green to yellow -- and rabbi baker, welcome. you can begin. >> thank you, for had chairman. in my work at a.j.c. and at the osce i have focussed on europe and the problem of anti-semitism there. while the number of incidents and their severity are much greater than here in amaircu, there are important parallels on addressing anti-semitism in this country. this has much to do with the essential first step of fdsing the nature of anti-semitism and the importance of defining it. 15 year

r companies factor michael: all those capabilities that jet brought to walmart a very interesting fora brand. clearly one that has grown up as a large big-box infrastructure company. the ability to put a store literally within touch of medicine of the speculation, tim miles a less. the capability is amazing. they were not born in the digital age like amazon was. the capability that jet hasbro to walmart can help walmart compete against amazon. another interesting example is walmart acquiring bonobos as a brand that moved into show rooming where the only way you could look at the bonobos product before ordering it was to go into a store. by buying that brand, variable to put that in all of those walmart locations in takeover int is an apparel retailer turn it into a significant player overnight. emily: what about smaller nation companies just smaller mitch companies -- smaller niche companies. what does that say about how companies like j.crew are doing? michael: in general when you see those like you type promotions comfortably the ones that seem too good to be true like getting $25 f

let's hear from michael in pennsylvania. ago,r: about nine years the investment ranks actually stole trillions of dollars from the american tax hair. now they want us to give them a tax break? at the same time, they're going to cut social security and medicare. that's what's going to happen because republicans have been trying to do away with medicare and social security since they were brought into existence. this is another attempt to rid of medicare and social security. host: we will go to nathan in georgia. caller: you need to quit listening to the politicians. just think about what america needs is a tax program. a rate figures what we owe. people, do away with every the duction except for where people take taxes. that is where your money is spent. host: let's take that. when republicans say we have simplified the tax code, have they? guest: there is a case to make for that. a lot of people who currently itemize their deductions, you know that can be an arduous process gathering all sorts of records and receipts to claim of v

trip adviser, because then they're getting less spent on their advertising partners >> michael ollisson, thank you r do not deserve the credit >> all executives in connecticut. you have who jets? >> don't answer that >> as your attorney, i advise you not do answer that >> good one. >> backup to the backup. do not miss thursday's show. >> look at this. we got cnbc's exclusive with mark okerstrom >> we'll tell you what clip the stocks wrecked when "power lunch" returns in a minute with full service brokerage firms... again. and online equity trades are only $4.95... i mean you can't have low cost and be full service. it's impossible. it's like having your cake and eating it too. ask your broker if they offer award-winning full service and low costs. how am i going to explain this? if you don't like their answer, ask again at schwab. schwab, a modern approach to wealth management. >>> another day and another big earnings missed in the big dining red error brobin gourmet. casual dining is not doing quite as well as someone would like. >> sticking with food, another stock is getting crushed, blue apron.

let's hear from michael in pennsylvania. ago,r: about nine years the investment ranks actually stole trillions of dollars from the american tax hair. now they want us to give them a tax break? at the same time, they're going to cut social security and medicare. that's what's going to happen because republicans have been trying to do away with medicare and social security since they were brought into existence. this is another attempt to rid of medicare and social security. host: we will go to nathan in georgia. caller: you need to quit listening to the politicians. just think about what america needs is a tax program. a rate figures what we owe. people, do away with every the duction except for where people take taxes. that is where your money is spent. host: let's take that. when republicans say we have simplified the tax code, have they? guest: there is a case to make for that. a lot of people who currently itemize their deductions, you know that can be an arduous process gathering all sorts of records and receipts to claim of v

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michael: what bothers me most is that the kurds who are expected to blalast i.s. ouofof here ae sticicki out theheir necksks rutside interests. for example, in the interests of the u.s. but far too little is done for the civilians left holding the bag, and too little is done for the fighters themselves. you could say these people are being used. reporter: this kurdish fighter signals us to stay under cover. i.s. snipers are still hidden in the ruins of the jihadist group's self-declared capital. they're feared by the syrian democratic forces -- the sdf. many of the armed fighters here are e young, still in their tee. the sdf is a group of individual arab and kurdish allied militias trained by american forces. they've paid a high price in the war against i.s. a pickup truck brings more wounded. during an advance, they fell victim to another i.s. booby trap. this medic is a volunteer from sweden. like many other volunteers, he goes by a kurdish pseudonym -- he doesn't want to reveal his real name. in one crucial aspect, the fighting here is different than it was in the iraqi city of mosul earlier this year -- t

i want to ask you in particular there is r there is increasing focus on michael flynn's role and particularly his son. is michael son's cooperating with your investigation right now? >> we've not commented on this specific cooperation, non-cooperation of individual witnesses. what we do know is in the case of michael flynn we had an individual who was national security adviser for 24 days before he had to get fired because he didn't reveal his contacts with russians. we've had one individual related with the trump campaign mr. papadopoulos convicted of lying to the fbi because he wasn't fully forthright with the dirt they had on hillary clinton. we had this mysterious meeting with paul manafort, who's been indicted. they were saying they were offering again dirt on hillary clinton, but what we do know and what i think the investigation in a bipartisan way has moved the needle. we do know the russians tried to cancel 21 state electoral systems and across the country we're raising our guard so that future russian meddling is stopped. there's enormous concern of how russians used social media in

. >> michael -- >> kids business is strong even with toys "r" us you will be in good shape this christmas enjoy your turkey and lemon cake appreciate it. >> it's not just shopping also a huge weekend for travel. a record number of people expected to fly and contessa brewer is live at newark airport. contessa >> you guys, what would thanksgiving eve be without that live report at the airport the reporter standing out and talking about the crowds only this year i have something you're not going to want to miss suppli a surprise you probably have not heard in decades on a live report on thanksgiving eve i' be llback after the break don't want to miss it. stay here on "power lunch. global markets, that'f the rhythm of the world. but to us, it's the pace of tomorrow. with ingenuity, technologies, and markets expertise we create the possible. and when you do that, you don't chase the pace of tomorrow. you set it. nasdaq. rewrite tomorrow. >>> kohl's moving higher as the retailer gets set for the crucial part of the year, the company getting a jump start an black friday opening its doors at 5:00

. >> not only was he michael sheffield's good friend, patrick was also ellen's employee at the r & suck ki motorcycle dealership where she was working as the service manager. >> my boss was giving me a lot of heat about patrick's productivity and his comebacks. so he told me in december that i needed to let him go but he wanted to wait until after christmas. i actually kept him much longer than i would have because he was a friend. >> the first week of january 2010 ellen fired patrick. she could not have known just how life-altering that decision would be. what did he say? >> didn't say too much. just loaded up his stuff and left. >> of course, ellen didn't know that patrick knew the secret. and he went to the police. >> and he went to the police. >> and now patrick was sitting in a starbucks with detective wilson, letting him in on the eight-year-old secret. >> so this guy didn't really come forward out of the goodness of his heart or his civic duty. this was revenge. >> yes. >> but you'll take it. >> yes. >> patrick told the detective that he knew that mike snyder had been killed a

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r this week. >> a police just wrapped up a news conference where they say they arrested and charged 36-year-old michael bell of upper marlboro with first degree rain, second degree assault, and impersonating a police officer. police say he approached the man, offered him a ride. >> he is wearing a badge. he's got a flashlight out, much like a police officer would, and a badge that looks like a police officer badge. >> bell demands the victim give him the i.d. and he do a down. >> police say the victim then accepted a ride, climbed bought sbak seat and forced him to perform sex acts. he took a picture of the license plate before calling 911. police believe there could be other victims. please give them a call if you know anything. >> new details now and new fallout from multiple ongoing stories surrounding sexual misconduct. >> tv, politics, now the music world all coming to terms with this new reality. we want to get you up to speed on this now. two lawmakers from both parties are dealing with this in two very different ways. michigan congressman john conyers from the hospital, vowing not to resign des

r" us, we'll be in all 596 stores to start. radio shack, we'll be in 1,500 stores. we have deals with barnes & noble, michaels, nordstrom. also expanding to canada this year. but let's talk about the breakdown of sales per store. what is your turnaround? how many do you sell? so we'll be in those stores starting in the fall. mark: yeah, you mentioned these are all orders that are coming. in the fall. so you haven't gone in yet. you've sold $1.7 million. where are you making those sales? so we're in other online channels. um, amazon is a big one for us. basically, last year we were primarily online, and last year we did $540,000 in sales. are you getting any sales for boys, though? 'cause it doesn't -- both: yes. we do have boys playing with it, too. is it gender-specific? on your opening comments, i thought it was a product targeted to developing young girls. yes. we've made it gender-specific in that you can start by making a dollhouse. but boys have come to us and boys are playing with it. what does it sell for? so we have multiple products. the one that you have in front of you now, that's the studio. that sells for $

r&d. it wants to keep up the lines. hit, if the iphone x is a that feeds into the other offerings like apple music and i club storage. we spoke to michael flynn about the price. olson about the price. he already bought one today. sense ont have a good the price until later this year at the earliest. vonnie: of laws continues at the apple store in palo alto and tim , bound tople uniform cell phones today. the sick a look at with the rest of the universe of equities is doing about 90 minutes into the trading session and julie hyman is here. julie: apple is a big part of the universe when you look at what's going on with major averages. one of them stands out is the one that defends the most heavily on apple, that is the nasdaq. about 14 index points of the 16 point gain are from apple alone. that's why the nasdaq is the outperform her. we are not seeing the change overall, given it was a jobs report day. the jobs report having some noise from the hurricanes, not seeing that strong of a report when you look at the average hourly earnings. they remained unchanged. looking earnings. with the scorecard on the s&p 500 during earnings season, a

r& b performance for distraction. this is her second grammy nomination. qatar oh was nominated for best new artÃage album. and alphabet rockers best children's album. and julian lang best contemporary instrumental album. and michaele cisco sympathyà symphony got a nomination for best performance. >>> the new word of the year to share with you. the selection was inspired by current events specific by the trump which is complicit. to be involved in an illegal act with others. they say searches for that word complicit race by 300% this year. especially in march after ivanka trump was spoofed in an snl skit selling a fragrance called complicit. >>> life is going to be made easier for parents by creating a new baby registry. parents will create wish list. this is not for kids for the baby. this is for mom and dad in including food packages for events like that's babysitting, slipping through the night, pizza lovers can register for items that look like food but are not like pepperoni pizza moccasins and coffee mugs. they also have a wedding registry available. >>> i want to remind you to make a donation to the warm warm coat donation. the collection drive started 25 years ago. you can donate a you or gently used coat

our fourth witness is barry tractenberg, the michael r. of chair of jew wish history at wake forest. our fifth witness is paul clement, a. sandra hagee parker. our seventh witness is jonathan greenblatt, national director of the anti-defamation league. our eighth witness is suzanne nossell, executive director of pen america. and our ninth witness is ken stern, the executive director of the justice and karen rosenberg foundation. welcome to all of you. your written statements will be entered into the record. and we ask that you summarize your testimony in five minutes to help you stay within that time, there's a timing light on your table. when the light turns red, time is up. and it signals your five minutes have expired. rabbi baker, you can begin. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member conyers. in my work at ajc and the osce, i have focused on europe and the problem of anti-semitism there. while the number of incidents and their severity are much greater than here in america, there are important parallels that have bearing on address