news, videos throughout the week, and exclusive trade and now ground breaking tutorials starring mike co. check it out. ♪ >> they're in the dow, dmx. why this classic theory could make you money in 2015. plus -- ♪ cisco kid was a friend of mine ♪ >> something john chambers has been no friend of the stock. we'll explain what the company needs to do when "options action" returns. >>> is there a problem at cisco? shares of the networking company have had a nice year but cisco is still underperforming similar old tech names like hp and microsoft. dan nathan there and breaking it down. >> it was oracle's results that got me thinking. the stock broke out, it was up 10% after the better than expected results and if you look over here at the chart, i mean, the stock basically, this is a 15 year chart, a few percent away now from the all-time highs made in the internet bubble in 2000. it got me thinking about the other guys at the time were considered the horsemen, microsoft, intel, cisco. cisco at one point was the largest market cap company in the world back in 1999 or 2000. so cisco, to me, it

mike co is in austin with the options action. >> so 100 times the average daily call volume. pretty spectacular. >> granted, it normally trades about 237 contracts a day. so that's not normally a big number. but today, 23,000 call contracts. most of that was the february 13 calls. those were being bought for about 65 cents. one of the reasons is, as you pointed out, the stock was up 5% today. it's up 45% since the october lows. i think anybody who happens to be in the stock right now who wants to press a bullish bet, you're probably better off by buying these calls. >> are you in the trade at all? >> i am not. >> mike, thanks for that. meantime, we'll be right back. stay tuned. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the evolution of luxury continues. the next generation 2015 escalade. >>> final trade time. >> like google. like that name. like the valuation growth. >> i like the stock. the amount americans looking to leave jobs momentarily is rising, so linked in. >> bk? >> bk likes the twitter. i think this is one you buy tomorrow. i would buy it, and i most likely will buy it first thing tomorrow morn

tony was with three co-workers, mike keenan, 39, owner of a local business called sunshine landscaping, eddie espinoza, 26, the company's foreman, and another part-time employee. 27-year-old joe d'ambrosio. stoney lewis said that before he left the bar he saw a series of heated arguments between tony and eddie espinoza, with espinoza pushing tony around and threatening him. according to stoney, that was just the beginning. >> a couple witnesses were sleeping at 3:00 friday night, early saturday morning. and they were awakened by loud noises, yelling. and they saw joe, mike and eddie banging on doors, looking for paul lewis. and they had tony klann in the truck. >> apparently, mike keenan, eddie espinoza, and joe d'ambrosio, were convinced stoney lewis had stolen drugs from them. and they were forcing tony klann to lead them to stoney. >> tony had been crying. he looked like he had been beat a little bit. and they saw joe d'ambrosio with a knife to his throat. this was at 3:00 in the morning. >> stoney lewis's story was all detectives needed to hear. >> we went up into cleveland heights

you can use that money to pay for medical expenses like doctor mike's really high co pays, right. >>tax free. think about it this way if you get a dollar of your pay checked and you are tack add to doer percent. you have flexible spending accountings in as a dollar and comes out of a dollar. it is like getting a 5 percent discount on child care expenses or medical expenses, really for doing nothing. great deal. >> let me just tell you i have no idea what you just said. so tell me what to do. here's what you will do. >> if you have a flexible spending account at work and in it now here's the the catch. make sure you spend those funds, you know how are, there is 30 million of you out there, spend those fund before years end or you lose money. that is first tip this morning. we will tell how to you spend those funds in the second. second thing is if you are not in the flexible spending program at work, get in it new for next year for 2515. >> great way to save money without paying taxes. >> what can we spend it on. >> qualified medical expenses include everything from co pays, deductibl

we should pass the smarter sentencing act, which i introduced with senator mike lee, co-sponsored by senator leahy, senator ted cruz and rand paul of kentucky. that is quite a broad spectrum of political belief and we all support this bill. we should restore federal voting rights for ex-offenders. a cause which has been championed by senators ben arton and rand paul. some five to eight million workers still don't have the right to vote. we need to pass the voting rights amendments act which was authored by chairman leahy. and republican congressman jim sen sen brunner. this bipartisan legislation is a response the supreme court's 2013 shelby county decision. this will be my last hearing as chairman of the subcommittee as i turn over the gavel to senator cruz, the incoming chairman. clearly there is much work to do. i look forward to working with senator cruz in the 114th congress as we struggle to create a more perfect union. mr. cruz. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i thank witnesses who are here today. there is no more important role for united states senate than to carefully guard and

mike thanks for coming again this year. >> my pleasure. >> introduce me. >> i brought some co-workers. enzo and janice from the office supplies. we're headquartered in oakland. >> mike why are you involved in hunger relief? >> we're a commercial office supply company and been around for 23 years and our business model is to take care of the customers and donate the profits to nonprofit organizations in the areas that we sell into. historically one of the most popular from our customers and our employees, choices is the food bank. so we have the food banks are doing so fundamentally important work in solving the basic human needs of our community. >> okay, you just like to be surprised. i don't like to peek but this time i did it. i saw the check. it's $210,000? how did you raise so much money? >> well this is a portion of the profit we made in running our business taking care of the customers. so each year we grow. each year the -- the check gets bigger. >> you have great service and you have great customers. and how is thatgoing to help you? this is michael altfest from the alameda cou

who certainly has close ties with san francisco and as honorary co-chair for fleet week senator (clapping.) thank you, thank you very much mike and to my friend of mine secretary shuttering and my pal charlotte and mayor ed lee and everyone who is here i just wanted to thank everyone wearing a whitecap here for their service i've been in the senate for 22 years i've seen there is a price for freedom and you see it up close and personal and you see it in the faces of our military people who are willing to stand at all to be trained, to take orders and become the most powerful fighting force on architecture san francisco has always been a navy town and i think the fleet week which i was part of bringing back in 1981 have shown that i think to our men and women who are assembled here today who serve in the united states navy and the united states marine corp what i'll find is a welcoming city i hope you enjoy the weekends it's k30i8d important you do if you end up in the who's gallows don't call eyeing otherwise if there's dismissing anything we can do to help we're there i said this morning one of the great surprises and pleasa

>> well, george clooney sought out our editor -- co-editor-in-chief, mike flemming, who is one of the great movie industry reporters and commentators. he made it clear he wanted to get this off his chest about how he felt things had played out since the hack began and particularly because clooney is on the record having a deep interest in journalism and how it's practiced around the world having been both connected to journal itseists and made filmst journalists. he wanted to discuss how the press had responded to the hack and put into context the situation he felt sony had been put in. >> he created this petition and he wanted other hollywood a-listers and studio heads to sign this petition condemning what north korea supposedly has done. nobody signed that petition. does that surprise you? >> does it surprise me nobody signed it? i think it certainly surprised george clooney. i think people in the industry were caught in a very difficult position here. not wanting to add to the gossip content of what was going on. the entire industry was kind of paralyzed by the hack and was trying

mike baker is a former cia covert operations officer. he is now president and co-founder of diligence global intelligence and security firm. mike, great to see you. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> take us back for the week and give mae me your observations. a lone wolf attack in australia, a lot of conversation about whether or not we could see something like that in america. how should the u.s. be responding or preparing for such an event? >> well, we've been preparing in essence for years now, and we've talked about, you know, the threat of the individual attack. i think sometimes calling it lone wolf -- and we always have this same sort of problem every time there's one of these incidents, particularly recently. every time you talk about a lone wolf incident, it tends to minimize the impact from sort of the 30,000-foot level. look, the muslim extremists, jihadists, they don't care whether the individual carrying out the attack or individuals is a committed extremist, a committed muslim extremist or if they're just a psychotic who are looking for

defense co-counsel mike deguerrin told the jurors there was an obvious rush to judgment that contaminated> kind of an evil suspicion from the get-go. >> reporter: first-responder michael golob testified that neighbor justin sparks started making accusatory comments while they were still trying to revive leslie. >> justin at one point turned to me and said something along the lines of "i never trusted that sob." >> i think that the suspicions started with mr. sparks and never stopped. >> you think it was somewhat of a snowball effect. >> yeah, i do. >> reporter: and even though golub was a prosecution witness, he admitted he personally didn't find anything odd about fred's behavior that day. >> he just kind of seemed to have trouble focusing. he seemed panicked. everyone deals with tragedy different. i felt in the context it seemed appropriate. >> reporter: but what about that important evidence against fred -- the apparent lack of injuries on leslie's body. >> did you wonder, at all, why your mom didn't have more injuries as -- as some people feel she should? >> i don't -- no. >> no, you

also the coalition built around the usa freedom act, we had co-sponsors and we had great republican allies in the senate from senators mike lee dean heller and ted cruz and we are working with democrats, all over the democratic spectrum, dick durbin, sheldon whitehouse. we have support from the aclu the brennan center, the nra, tech freedom and the coalition is not going away. the coalition is going to continue to be working hard together. i think it's going to actually be a really interesting process as we go forward in the new congress under republican congressional leadership because the republican caucus with congressman massie being the prime example of this from today his remarks showed its split on this issue. and coming into the senate we have two new republican senators who were co-sponsors of the original broader version of usa freedom act. we heard from congressman massie that he has been talking to many of the new republican house members and he thinks there's going to be quite a number of them who are going to be in a civil libertarian pro-reform camp. i think it's going to be a very interesting run-up to jun

part in, the spiritual part if you will, as the mike viqueira said earlier, he's from argentina, the pope, bringing in latin america, talking to the natural co constituents, talking about banking and capitalism. you can use your atm cards and credit cards there. that's the type of thing that let everyone else join in thend fray. i think some of the house majority leader, again, kevin mccarthy is saying today that a lot of the same refrain but also, david, comparing this, comparing cuba to syria and iran. >> i'm going to cut you off, the alan gross family is speaking. >> alan found out yesterday morning that he was going to be released from his lawyer, scott gilbert. scott told alan on the phone he was--there was a long silent pause, and then alan said, i'll believe it when i see it. the plane this morning from andrews took judy gross, alan's wife, scott gilbert along senators leahy and flake and congressman van holen down to havana. they landed. they found alan there. they were on the ground for about a half hour. when they got back up on the plane there was a big bowl of popcorn waiting for alan because that's one of the things he said he h

she carries on an affair with karate instructor, mike stone, as elvis stays busy with every starlet. touching the life of tory petty, a 20-year-old coedstar mentality. he was like a southern gentleman who was trying to impress his date. >> the pressleys separate in february 1972. their divorce finalized in '73, a year elvis nearly overdoses on bar pitch ats. >> he seemed copied up to you? >> no, he didn't. he didn't drink alcohol. the only thing he did was pills. that his doctor prescribed him. >> he never did illicit drugs. he went to richard nixon when he was president and got a badge for the drug enforcement administration. do you think in his mind he thought he was doing something sinful? or did he think he was just taking medicine? >> i'm sorry, he was a drug addict, no better, no worse. if you use them against what the doctor is ordering you to use them and the doctor is giving them to you illegally, can't we make that jump they were illicit drugs? >> nowadays. >> we told elvis, look, why don't you let us take you down to duke university. you spend a month at duke university, they'll get you back in good health. you get off all

. >> co-ca-cola lagging the dow this year but some traders making a big bet 2015 will look brighter. mike austin with some "options action" for us. >> coca-cola tripled yesterday's call activity and the most active were the january of 2016 calls. this is the second day they have been buying them. that would represent a 20% increase in share price. john and pete highlighted a lot of put selling in this name late last week. a lot of bullish activity going on right now. jo they're making some moves, cutting costs to turn it around. happy new year, mike. >> happy new year. >> your first move for 2015 when we return. plus, i'll reveal my favorite song of 2014 right after this break. more "fast money" coming right up. >>> and there it is, my favorite song of 2014. a quick final trade. dave? >> target stores, turn around story. i love it. i think it will outperform. >> bk? >> merry new year to everybody. buy vix calls. >> happy new year. >> long big blue, ib m. >> here is to this. live from times square. mummy starts now. happy new year, everybody! ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> my mission is simple, to make you mon

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mike brown, over the summer. now, here locally, penn and drexel were demonstrating, this is all part of the protracted fall out from the case. that's what he want to undo, in his role as co-chair, all the task force, he says, he want to bridge the gap, with law enforcement agencies across the country and the people that they serve. he says all of this will factor into his recommendations, and he shared with us a few of the things that he wants to accomplish. >> this isn't going to be something that can be done overnight. but we certainly can create a framework to work from. and i think that's what the president is looking for right now, with some very solid recommendations that we can passalong to him, and then this, up to him, to decide what to do with those recommendations. >> those recommendations we know will include reaching out to neighborhoods of color, as well as under-privileged communities, as well as including body cameras in their programs. philadelphia already participating in a potentially new program that will become permanent very soon. this policy already sets aside $75 million for body cameras, for police officers across the country. live at police head

john najarian, co-founder of option munster, steve weiss, managing partner of short hills capital, josh brown joins us from florida because warmth and mike san tilly, columnist for yahoo! finance. we are close to the finish line of what's been a huge year for stocks. 2 1/2 trading days left in the year. those are the trading hours, not all the hours, just the trading hours, left in the year. we are cnbc, we can count. we want to know how everybody is playing the brief time that we have left. time for a look now at the big picture. first dom chu, morgan brennan here. what are you seeing? >> [ inaudible ]. >> all right. we're going to go to the traders. dom, we'll get to you in a second. it's what happens. >> this was a great setup. >> not a great first two minutes. stephen weiss since you're being snarky -- >> more often, i'm just warming up. >> here's what i see for 2015. >> i take full blame for that mistake. went to dom before he was ready. >> i think small caps catch up. take a lock at where they are and historical valuation it's difficult to look at that actually because there are different situations that occur like in '08, or '09 w

john najarian, co-founder of option munster, steve weiss, managing partner of short hills capital, josh brown joins us from florida because warmth and mikean tilly, columnist for yahoo! finance. we are close to the finish line of what's been a huge year for stocks. 2 1/2 trading days left in the year. those are the trading hours, not all the hours, just the

. >> here to help you reboot your love life is mike down who hosted an online discussion about relationships coone. she is looking to find someone who is the whole package, playful, protective and good looking. >> nice. clea is a 32-year-old mom of adorable 4-year-old zaire who says she hasn't been on a date in eight months. she's been in long-term relationships before but still hasn't found mr. right. >> well well well. >> you're the guy with all the answers. >> i am kathie lee. >> a lot of women are online dating because people are busy they have a lot going on like these ladies have children. is that the way to go? >> it is the way to go. it takes about 17 months and 26 days until people are ready to move on. so first of all, these people are -- these lovely ladies are ready to move on. >> they have been ready. >> they have been ready. >> especially joanne. >> were you hesitant to go online? it seems like a scary world out there? >> i was very hesitant to go online. i felt like online dating was for people that can't get a date or people that i don't know want to cruise the internet and see

someone like paul and other constitutional scholars that exist, mike lees ted cruz come forward, say we're going to take this back. should be three cofuture i don't know if this is a one time side show with relation to isis or the first of many constitutional battles as we move to a republican controlled senate. that's what will be interesting to watch. >> and interesting to see about hillary clinton, how do you think she's handling the public persona, as far as isis and foreign policy? >> i don't know i haven't had a conversation with her or her aids. i can tell you she's going to have to at some point put down a position on this. she will declare whether she's running or not in the middle of january. that's what i am hearing from the staff. and if she does run, we're going to ask. we and the press want to know what her position on the middle east is and specifically on the threat of isis. i think, listen if you're going to run for president, whether democrat or republican, you need to have a position. i welcome what she will have to say. i welcome how the republicans are completely divided on this issue, and they are. especially t

mike, one, two, three, and four. there are three rules to this q and a. one you need to introduce yourself. evan is going to join us. >> a partner, wow! >> he cointerview" together. rules are, you have to introduce yourself if you want to say your affiliation with a college or otherwise, go ahead. you need to keep it short and it needs to end in a question mark. so no semi colon -- just keep it here.let's start over >> hi. my name is alex. i'm the co-president of the business school of republicans. my question tonight is are there any candidates that you ever want to win even if you disagree with them just because they'll provide you with good material? >> no. always put - i'll social issues above my own personal comedic well-being, personally. >> i know. >> i do wins a little bit when they lose. >> i might have voted for arnold schwarzenegger just for a laugh. > i've voted against people or when michelle backman decided she was resigning. i'm from minnesota, and i was like, oh, i can't use this accent anymore. so i don't -- no. >> it's temperaturing, though. >> probably like rob ford's moving on. >> true. >> that was a wild thing to watch. >>

mike, you know, love who ever the author was. >> oh, did they say anything to you about it? >> oh, ya. >> one time i gave a gift to one of my col nice gift bag, tissue bag, week or two later she gives me a gift in the exact same gift bag. it was like really? >> she re-gift dollars the gift bag? >> still i give it to her, it was very nice gift bag. it was an expensive one. >> yes, big time re-gift err. everything that comes into the tv station, i can give that to my dad did. >> okay, so, during the holidays, you'll ruin christmas for all of my friend and family by telling this. >> you won't believe the amount of time, ladies spend just getting ready, it takes time to wake up like this. we'll tell you why it is taking so long. in just a bit. but first, listen to this. >> ♪ >> megan rocked the wells fargo center last night for jingle ball. this is her new single,. >> that famous song, lips are moving? >> these lips are moving, yes. >> single gals, i'm going to get it out of here in just a little bit, giving you all of the dirt from the >> take a look at the storm system, brought us rain, wind on tuesday, and literally come full c