that's too negative. >> that's the thing you can rely on the most is hearing mike sievert.e does tend to be promotional sometimes. >> he has the numbers. david, he has the data. the other guy, who you claim is mr. apple, i don't know. i mean, what does he know? >> i don't know him at all. i never heard of him, but my colleagues seem to know him very well, so what do i know? >> gala. maybe he's a gala apple. >> there's a lot of different apple breed. there are. >> if you go apple picking right now, you might get that guy. some of them have worms, david. >> meanwhile, jim, there is this piece on the tape today about the eu, and the pressure that apple apparently will be under to open ios to rivals or face significant fines in the story's words. >> yeah, obviously, suboptimal for apple. apple has an unbelievable operating system, and the idea that you -- the better you make it, the more you have to give it away seems wrong to me. the european -- we've got, like, u.s. 1, europe, like, 27 in these different -- these things are basically kangaroo courts. they're show trials. they

that's why i'm thrilled to be joined by mike sievert, the president and ceo of t-mobile.it to see you west of new jersey. >> it's not easy but they allow me. one thing certain the last time i saw you when stock was down this big was the last time it just took off. tell me what you said versus what the hedge funds were doing with their stock. i think you can tell me more? >> i'm more of a business expert than a stock expert. we traded off from near all- time highs today in anticipation of the story. i'm told some short-term money wanted a little more. we committed to up to $50 billion in stock buybacks and dividends. we increased dividend as well. >> our viewers want that dividend. you gave it to them. >> we gave more than a 30% bump in the dividend to reflect this. what we are hearing is the long investors love the story. it is such an exciting story. we laid out we are going to transform this business and continue to lead the industry now from our high scale in terms of postpaid net additions, in terms of revenue, in terms of ebit and cash. that's the trifecta. this grow

we have mike sievert from t mobile. we'll find out about new phones and how they're doing. carl eschenbach from work day. >> it's not just who come on, jim, we know you're talking to so many people out there and not sleeping because i assume you go to dinners that don't get done until 9:00 or 10:00 and then get up at midnight. >> i got two solid hours last night. i resent that. i was watching alanis morissette, david. >> who? >> alanis morissette. >> i remember her. >> isn't it ironic, yes. >> you know who i'm seeing tonight? >> mcconaughey? >> pink. pink. you know the singer pink? >> yes, i do. >> not pink pony club, pink. >> we want to see pictures jim. >>> markets relatively quiet although dow is down and so is the s&p. don't go anywhere. at no extra cost. and if you have medicare and medicaid, you may be able to get extra benefits, too, through a humana medicare advantage dual-eligible special needs plan. call now to see if there's a plan in your area and to see if you qualify. all of these plans include doctor, hospital and prescription drug coverage. plus, something r

. >> can i offer him an open invitation to come here and sit in mike sievert's seat >> the dan ives chair>> larry ellison doesn't know you. he doesn't care about you. he never thinks about you. and i just want you to know that i love doing that. i'm sorry. >> i feel like an eaten dog. >> oh. in springfield, ohio >> i've neve earlier today >> how could they have made all that money and not done anything with it? i think the cancer vaccine is not here it was all about the cancer vaccine from day one you know, i did some work, my daughter had melanoma, it's kind of known, and i was trying to find out what was the possibility of a cancer vaccine melanoma they're nowhere. nobody's anywhere on this stuff, and that's just the real tragedy. by the way, you know who's going to solve this? the cancer vaccine jensen he's spending a lot of time on health care and creating individualized health care because they can do millions of permutations they can do it in an hour. i was used to take years >> i always get confused when you talk about things like this, because i think of nvidia as a company that s

t-mobile is going to be where you get the apple phone because mike sievert sat right there, right wheregoing to be competitive first verizon and at&t. by the way, he's -- >> the dan ives commemorative chair. >> who dresses worse, sievert or ives? by the way, he must be so excited. marvin harrison jr., i didn't get him in the draft. >> go ski daddies. as we go to break, let's check bonds. jim mentioned the two-year briefly, lowest level since the middle of last year. we will get factory orders in a few minutes, and don't forget jo j.o.l.t.s. at the top of the hour. stay with us. hi, my name is damian clark. and if you have both medicare and medicaid, i have some really encouraging news that you'll definitely want to hear. depending on the plans available in your area, you may be eligible to get extra benefits with a humana medicare advantage dual-eligible special needs plan. all these plans include a healthy options allowance. a monthly allowance to help pay for eligible groceries, utilities, rent, and over-the-counter items like vitamins, pain relievers, first-aid supplies and more. the

september 18th, meeting, mike sievert. then, of course, on "mad money." know more about apple and sales than these three stooges who say apple's already timed to go, sell it? i'm done with my time. i cede it to you, senator. >> all right. we got cow bells here, so that's not going to be good either. >> that was very terse. thank you. >> there it goes, carl. >> yep. if you can hear me, the opening bell and the cnbc realtime exchange. at the big board, staffing services provider kforce, celebrating its recent transfer from the nasdaq and at the nasdaq, the general -- consulate general of mexico in new york commemorating the 214th anniversary of mexican independence. so, jim, again, if you can hear the sound of my voice, we got to work our way and chop a lot of wood to the fed, but between now and the fed, we will get retail sales. >> retail sales is going to be another one of those numbers where all we're going to do is talk about 25, 50, 25, 50, missing the forest for the trees. what matters is we're in a rate cut cycle and a rate cut cycle, you buy a lot

then yesterday we saw the stock go up nearly 4% on just comments from one carrier t-mobile's ceo mike sievertn they were last year, at least the early preorder sales so far. we're going to have to wait through the weekend and in the coming weeks to get more and more color on what the demand looks like and what that demand picture looks like. in the meantime i will tell you, the last two years i've been standing out here on iphone launch day, line around the block. that line around the block has kind of diminished. not sure what to make of that. most of the people are crowded in front, not a spillover area like there has been in the years past. people trickle in throughout the day. we'll see how the line kind of ebbs and flows throughout the day. i will also note this is all happening as the apple intelligence, that's the ai platform that apple is working on, is not going to launch until next month and even then only limited number of features. despite that, the -- you can see the store behind me decked out in the new look for siri that's going to be the more yasds vanced version of siri you'r